I haven't written about our moms lately. Things have been pretty unchanged, until lately. Saturday Zoe and I visited her mom Gerry at the dementia/Alzheimer's ward at Western State Hospital south of Tacoma. She had been moved from the ward she had been on the past two years to one that has only dementia and Alzheimer's patients. We aren't too happy with the move. Zoe will be working harder to get her up on the Island. Zoe has more here. We had an early start (it's a 2 1/2 drive) so we had time to stop by the nursing home where my mom is. She had a bad cold so she wasn't doing real well. She doesn't eat a lot and is losing weight. Her hearing seems to be going. She is walking more, which is a good thing. As to whether she can get in and out of a car we don't know. My brother Terry is going to try but it doesn't really look like she can. The family may have to bring Thanksgiving and Christmas to her. Last year at this time she was living in an assisted living home and we were able to take her out to dinner and bring her over to Terry's for a family gathering. She is a lot worse now, although she has gotten over her pneumonia and her lungs are clear. She is 88 1/2. Each year we wonder if this will be the last holidays with her. She keeps hanging in there but we know are pushing out luck.