At The End Of Her Life, My Mother Started Seeing Ghosts, And It Freaked Me Out
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Subject: At The End Of Her Life, My Mother Started Seeing Ghosts, And It Freaked Me Out Sun Jul 30, 2017 7:18 am
At The End Of Her Life, My Mother Started Seeing Ghosts, And It Freaked Me Out
July 30, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
Last summer, six months before my mother died, I walked into her bedroom, and she greeted me with a tinny hello and a big smile. She then resumed a conversation with her mother — who had died in 1973. “Where are you?” Mom asked, as though Grandma, a onetime Fifth Avenue milliner, was on one of her many European hat-buying junkets. As I stood there dumbstruck, Mom continued chatting — in a young girl’s voice, no less — for several more minutes. Was this a reaction to medication, a sign of advancing dementia? Or was she preparing to “transition” to wherever she was going next? Regardless, Mom was freaking me out — as well as my brother, sister and father. As it turned out, my mother’s chat with a ghost was a signal that the end was inching closer. Those who work with the terminally ill, such as social workers and hospice caregivers, call these episodes or visions a manifestation of what is called Nearing Death Awareness. “They are very common among dying patients in hospice situations,” Rebecca Valla, a psychiatrist in Winston-Salem, N.C., who specializes in treating terminally ill patients, wrote in an email. “Those who are dying and seem to be in and out of this world and the ‘next’ one often find their deceased loved ones present, and they communicate with them. In many cases, the predeceased loved ones seem [to the dying person] to be aiding them in their ‘transition’ to the next world.”
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Subject: Re: At The End Of Her Life, My Mother Started Seeing Ghosts, And It Freaked Me Out Sun Jul 30, 2017 8:42 am
I was having the last visit with my elderly aunt about 2 years ago. She was completely alert and talking rationally to us but she would turn her head and speak to something we didn't see, saying something like " I'm not ready to go yet - leave me alone". This would be in her boss voice. She passed that evening.
Dove Super Elite
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Subject: Re: At The End Of Her Life, My Mother Started Seeing Ghosts, And It Freaked Me Out Sun Jul 30, 2017 11:35 am
My Mom (almost 93), a life long Christian, has had auditory and visual hallucinations for years, first due to mini-strokes, now to dimentia-alzheimers. They've changed now in character and composition.
About 8 or so years ago she would sometimes see her room full of people dressed in jogging suits, standing around in the room, talking with one another. All but one ignored her. One younger man would come close and sometimes look into her face as if to check on her. She lived alone at the time.
I'm not convinced she didn't 'call them' unintentionally if she was feeling alone. I say this because it stopped after I prayed about it, not rebuking them but explaining that it was worrisome to her and asking them to stop coming. (which I guess implies I think they were 'good' angels. Lame, too brief explanation I realize. Are they really out there in jogging suits watching over us? Stranger than that has happened to me and people I-we know.)
Now with progressed alzheimers she sees her Mother and deceased brothers and others sometimes. But she also has very confused thinking which clouds the interpretation of all her 'experiences'. For instance she'll get up at night and go out on the breezeway to wait for her 'brother' to come get her and take her home. She is in her own home. The brother she is waiting for is my brother, not hers, and he lives 2 full days drive away and hasn't retired yet, so he's not on his way like she thinks.
There's a book by a cardiologist, formerly an atheist, who details his patient's experiences and what opened his eyes. If you know of it, post it please. Or I'll go looking soon.
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Josephus
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Subject: Re: At The End Of Her Life, My Mother Started Seeing Ghosts, And It Freaked Me Out Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:00 pm
My Grandmother had Alzheimer's, and she saw and spoke to deceased family for months before she passed. That didn't really freak me out too much. What freaked me out was when she had me talk to my Grandfather! I answered a couple of questions for her and I then had to get out of there.
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Subject: Re: At The End Of Her Life, My Mother Started Seeing Ghosts, And It Freaked Me Out Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:45 pm
Dove wrote:
There's a book by a cardiologist, formerly an atheist, who details his patient's experiences and what opened his eyes. If you know of it, post it please.
My pleasure. Dr. Maurice Rawlings, Cardiologist. I don't have "Before Death Comes" but might have to rectify that oversight. I do have "To Hell and Back" and used to have the video tape of that book but gave it away to a prison ministry eons ago, but not before I made a DVD copy to keep. That video is below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ8TEGMj-jc
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Subject: Re: At The End Of Her Life, My Mother Started Seeing Ghosts, And It Freaked Me Out Tue Aug 01, 2017 2:23 pm
"Late last year, a remarkable study was published in the journal Ayu titiled "Effects of turmeric on Alzheimer's disease with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia." [ii] Researchers described three patients with Alzheimer's disease whose behavioral symptoms were "improved remarkably" as a result of consuming 764 milligram of turmeric (curcumin 100 mg/day) for 12 weeks. According to the study:
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"All three patients exhibited irritability, agitation, anxiety, and apathy, two patients suffer from urinary incontinence and wonderings. They were prescribed turmeric powder capsules and started recovering from these symptoms without any adverse reaction in the clinical symptom and laboratory data."
After only 3 months of treatment, both the patients' symptoms and the burden on their caregivers were significantly decreased. The report describes the improvements thusly:
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"In one case, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score was up five points, from 12/30 to 17/30. In the other two cases, no significant change was seen in the MMSE; however, they came to recognize their family within 1 year treatment. All cases have been taking turmeric for more than 1 year, re-exacerbation of BPSD was not seen."
Impressive at only 100 mg day. Much more at link.
I've been trying to figure out curcumin miselles, which supposedly improves curcumin bio-availability greatly. It can be purchased, but perhaps "Golden milk"-turmeric, warm milk and ghee would do it. Or turmeric, and coconut oil, added to some warmed liquid and mixed with hand mixer would work.
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details. A Miracle is when God makes His Reality our Experience
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Subject: Re: At The End Of Her Life, My Mother Started Seeing Ghosts, And It Freaked Me Out Wed Aug 02, 2017 12:26 am
Turmeric sounds good and i heard that coconut oil is great too. One thing i tried with my dad was 1 tablespoon honey and 1 teaspoon cinnamon in an 8 oz cup of hot water daily. It did wonders!
Dove Super Elite
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Subject: Re: At The End Of Her Life, My Mother Started Seeing Ghosts, And It Freaked Me Out Wed Aug 02, 2017 4:37 am
Thanks Lovisa! I'll start on it today-for me! LOL but seriously. If I seem any smarter, let me know. P.S. Glad you posted something. I was about ready to start tracking you down. I don't know what they do to people who don't 'exist'. Geeez.
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details. A Miracle is when God makes His Reality our Experience
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Subject: Re: At The End Of Her Life, My Mother Started Seeing Ghosts, And It Freaked Me Out Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:37 am
Good for you Dove. Be careful though, it will kick your butt. Maybe every other day to start. It may be very cleansing, stirs up all the bad stuff which is good but not a lot of fun until it finds it's way out. (If that makes any sense).
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