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Burlington, IA | Mike, I'm certainly sorry that you and John had to go through such situations, although I believe John was referring to his MIL, and what his wife had to do. No one should ever have to go through that. I am certainly not unfamiliar with similar situations, as I bore much of the responsibility of seeing after both my parents' care toward the end of their lives, although Alzheimer's was never involved. The illnesses they did have was bad enough. Those situations in my life I don't discuss much. I have no problem with the 2 or 3 sentences in John's post, where he was referring to his wife having to take away her mother's car keys after being threatened by the state police that they would if she didn't. That's a hard situation.
But John's first sentence/statement in his post was directed toward Kevin and family, was accusatory as heck, was thoughtless, and uncalled for. Somebody else must have agreed with me if he was asked to remove his post. I certainly didn't request it. He also attributed a statement to Kevin that he never made, about his Dad having a penchant or habit of regularly getting lost. Look at both of Kevin's posts, and he never, ever made that statement, and to attribute that to either Kevin or his Dad, without Kevin making a direct statement of that nature first, is wrong as well.
I basically stand by my original comments. Anyone throwing any blame or accusations toward Kevin and his family at this point, I probably would classify as a nimrod, and that may be being generous. To repeat myself, that family, and especially Kevin, I'm sure, is going through enough without running into that from anyone outside of their situation. John may be a wonderful guy, but as far as I'm concerned, the first part of his post was, I repeat, uncalled for.
I'm sincerely sorry if my comments offended you, or John. It's always been pretty much my nature to call a spade a spade. But I saw, and still see, the beginning part of John's post as completely out of line.
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