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Arguments with Entities
by Paul M.

I found your article on Deathbed Visions interesting. The story I have to relate is of my father, who is still living but with a long time case of Alzheimer's. My father has had the dementia for over 12 years now. He would have died many years ago, I believe, except for the action I took of removing him from the medications that the doctors had prescribed for him. When I began caring for him seven years ago, they prescribed Prozac, Buspar and halioperiodal (Haldol) to help control him. For two years he was on these meds and progressively grew worse, to the point of loss of balance, loss of speech, incontinence, the whole nine yards. About 1996, I became aware of the uselessness of these drugs and removed him from those meds and quit taking him to the doctors. Needless to say, he improved dramatically, regained his balance, diet, continence, speech and strength. At the end of 1997 I had a triple bypass (due to the stress of caregiving - another story altogether) and I had to put him in a nursing home for a month while I recuperated from the surgery. They put him back on those same drugs and he returned to his previous state of falling, no comprehensive speech, etc. It took me three months to remove him from those meds once Medicare quit overseeing him. Again he returned back to a state of somewhat normalcy - given the fact that he is a complete blithering idiot with Alzheimer's. In the last three years, he has had a dramatic decrease in all areas and is now at the stage naturally where he was when on the meds. Now for the paranormal aspect concerning deathbed visions.

My dad cannot speak clearly while awake, but when sleeping he is very clear, speaking with invisible entities. On more than five occasions, he has gotten into arguments with those entities, yelling at them saying, "No, I won't go with you. I won't go with you. Go away." And other statements in that regard. Once he even mentioned that he did not want to go to the light! A friend who helps me with my dad has witnessed these actions as well. It is difficult to know if he is just rambling the way Alzheimer's patients do or if he really is talking to family, but many times he is convinced of their reality and goes looking for these people in the shower, closets, wherever. He gets pretty upset when he can't find them. Is it a symptom of the dementia or is he really in communication with the other side? We have had activity in the house on a few occasions like a portable radio turning itself on, TV turning itself on, and other electrical equipment. I feel this is my family letting me know they are around and doing what they can for me, as I am patiently waiting for his passing over naturally - but my dad is extremely stubborn and strong for an 87 year old.

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