With help from her children and, in a roundabout way, a gaggle of geese, Patty realized her dream of living on the farm to the end. “We were so fortunate, because although she had Alzheimer’s, she was never aggressive, suspicious or prone to wandering away. In fact, she was pleasant. She embraced life like no one else I’ve ever known,” says Connie. “Later, when she was diagnosed with lung cancer and given months to live, all she said was, ‘Well, that’s depressing.’ It didn’t really slow her down. On the day before she died, she said, ‘I’m sad.’ It was the only time I heard her say anything like that. It broke my heart.”
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