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Message: <blockquote data-quote="So Very Drained" data-source="post: 766535" data-attributes="member: 33830">I dislike the symbols they use for emoji's and I just couldn't put a heart under your post.  My mother had dementia as well - a slow, sad, and painful journey down a slope.  So hard.  And to have the weight of your son right there at the same time - just heartbreaking.  I read the posts on here and "feel" them in my soul.  Quite honestly - sometimes when I have a brief break in the chaos that is my son, I just can't get on and read posts.  It's like putting my head in the sand - it's less work, less painful.  But I know I need to come on here and hear people who started the healing process way before you and I and offer their words of wisdom and tough love.</blockquote>