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Depression

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My mother is one of those people who has every right to complain.  She’s 85-years old and her body is wearing out.  She needs a walker to get around these days.  She has macular degeneration that has taken most of her eyesight.  For a person who loves to read, loves to bird watch, and loves to watch TV….blindness is particularly painful.  The hardest part, the most difficult thing she has lived through, is losing her daughter (my older sister) to cancer about 3-years ago.  I know she’s struggled with depression in the past, though it never incapacitated her.  It’s amazing …