Fair enough questions.

I’ll post my dd214. Just haven’t gotten around to it yet. Exhausted yesterday after Foxwoods trip into gigging the weekend. Family day yesterday...haven’t even set foot in the office where the dd214 is.

Truthfully, We don’t owe anyone any explanation for how we dealt with my Mothers illness. Just because Ant was/is a public figure doesn’t require that we answer personal questions because someone doesn’t agree with our Personal decisions..but just for argument sake and to put it to rest once and for all:

We visited my Mom and Sal at the Arbors assisted care living center on a regular basis while she was still in the least bit coherent and lucid. Her condition deteriorated very quickly. My Mom was pretty stubborn in a lot of ways. She voluntarily stopped taking the pills that were prescribed for her early onset dementia by her neurologist early on. They may have helped her stick around mentally for more time. When she told me that she didn’t like how the pills made her feel, I told her that it was a bad idea to stop them, she paid me no mind. I argued that she should say goodbye to Layla and Warren now then, in an attempt to change her miNd, but it fell on deaf ears. Her and Sal lived there for about a year together and she was mentally gone within that year. There was nothing left of our Mothers mind or personality by that point, she was being fed, dressed, escorted everywhere. During the few post “recognition” visits we made to see her, it sometimes actually made HER uncomfortable to have us there at all, and we were sometimes asked nicely by the staff to cut the visit short because Ro was getting upset and that would agitate Sal as well.

I’m not saying we did exactly the right thing all the time, but what’s the right thing to do while you watch someone you love disappearing before your eyes? Sal Lived with the entire process up until the very end. Dawn was involved in the legalities, still is. Anthony’s never been able to handle being deeply cut emotionally. ALL OF YOU ASSHOLES KNOW THAT. So, why would it be expected of anyone to subject themselves to that level of psychological/emotional stress? It wasn’t beneficial to our Mom in the least. As I said, all that was left was the outside shell of Ro. She knew how her children felt about her. It was the four of us watching out for each other and pitching in to live a decent life from the time my Dad left until we moved out. We all loved and respected our Mom very much. After all is said and done, she knew it right up until the point where she knew nothing.

PS- We all know that the hateful and disrespectful comments posted here involving our Mother is purely for shock value, drawing attention to yourselves in that was is a desperate attempt at getting us to engage you in an aggressive manner. It’ll never happen. Hope this clears that up. It’s the last I write about Ro. RIP Mom.