Bollywood Genes

Anyone that knows our family, knows that we are HUGE Bollywood fans. You cannot go more than 3 minutes in conversation with one of us and us not relate the talk to either a Bollywood song or movie. I give Dad full credit for instilling Bollywood in each one of us. Instead of going to a restaurant on the weekends, or the movie theater, Dad would go to our nearby Indian Movie rental store, Deep Imports, and rent 2 movies for us to watch as a family. He was a HUGE movie fan. He even skipped school (which is unheard of with his work ethic) to go and see Dev Anand, who was shooting a movie nearby. Poor guy, only ended up seeing the top of Dev Anand's head- Til this day Mom laughs at this story, but I can only feel for his frustration as I can only imagine how irritated I would have been only seeing SRK's head when he was here in San Francisco.

Driving around in Dad's old rust colored Volvo, he was such a music snob. He would play music mostly from Dev Anand movies. Here are two songs that remind me of him. Everytime I hear either of these songs it brings me right back to Dad singing them or him making a comment about how great of an actor Dev Anand was, "No one can beat him". Love Daddio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9oQZQvCQqE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQfqq8dcds8

Love this picture of Dad

I have this one on my walls, just thought I would share with you.  We are in DC in this picture for my second wedding reception.  He looks quite handsome eh?

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Are we stable?

It's been about a month since we started Dad on some vitamins and some attempts of a diet change. I make sure Dad gets his vitamins by adding them to his Ensure shakes daily. Changing his diet has been pretty difficult, but we have successfully added chia seeds to his jam sandwiches, which is a great protein and omega 3 boost. Still haven't found a good replacement to wheat... though I personally don't think Dad's allergic to wheat. I saw some immediate improvements, but I think they were due to the Ensure drinks. One of those drinks has more protein than what Dad has had in over a year. That has to be a rush to his body and his brain.

You know, I am not kidding myself. I don't think Dad will have full recovery, or even a 10% recovery from the vitamins. I'm just hoping for some stabilization. Watching him slip from one stage to another is devastating. I know he doesn't know who I am, and he can't really hold a conversation with anyone. I just want him to continue to be able to find the bathroom himself. If he can continue to remember to shower, even if it's once a week, I'm happy. He remembers Mom, and that works for me. He loudly and happily sings two or three songs (he made them up), I'm good with that too.

Today I asked Mom how she thinks Dad's doing? She said, he hasn't gotten worse. Stabilize, that's all I'm asking.