Do y'all think Barb will survive past this event?

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Total coin toss.
On one hand she could live even better now that she is/will probably get the care she's needed for the last 10 years, be it she gets a new medical check-up and diagnosis, maybe she will be deemed competent enough to live alone back at Casa de Chandler hopefully with a daily/weekly nurse that checks on her, or she's put in a home where she gets the elderly care she needs, plus maybe with the burden of Chris being gone will be the cure for what ails her.
On the other hand, all of this could kill her. If Chris was her reason for hanging on, that could kill her. If the guilt she feels for being apart of something that finally puts her baby boy away for 2-10 years in prison or even life in the psych ward, that could kill her. If after she gets the care she needs, she comes back to reality and realizes the horror of what Chris did to her/what she did with Chris (and possibly if she's the one at fault, remember she forced him to spoon her after Bob dies, its entirely possible Barb in her long gone foggy head asked Chris to fuck her) then she might not want to live any more.
50/50. The intervention could get her the help she needs and make her live better, or the reality of it all could make her give up or even kill herself.
 
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There's a more than reasonable chance she will have some improvement in quality of life, at least in the short term. Dementia and degenerative geriatric illnesses in general are made worse by malnutrition and dehydration and living in a filthy environment.
If she doesn't, at least she will pass away in a clean hospital bed, fed and hydrated with whatever medicine will make her comfortable.
 
Bisected Equine dijo:
What does she have to live for at this point. I don't wish for it but Barb's death may be a mercy to her.
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I don’t think death is what she needs. She needs a loving family. Maybe someone on her side will take her in and hopefully dementia will take away the rape memories
 
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ThePeePooMan dijo:
Total coin toss.
On one hand she could live even better now that she is/will probably get the care she's needed for the last 10 years, be it she gets a new medical check-up and diagnosis, maybe she will be deemed competent enough to live alone back at Casa de Chandler hopefully with a daily/weekly nurse that checks on her, or she's put in a home where she gets the elderly care she needs, plus maybe with the burden of Chris being gone will be the cure for what ails her.
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One look at the house and the authorities will quickly determine that the easiest way to deal with this is to put her in a care facility and get rid of the house. I can't even imagine how difficult it would be to make the hoard safe for a person with dementia.

There aren't two options for Barb. She is going to a ten by ten room with a bed with people to keep a constant eye on her. Chris is headed for the same thing.
 
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However, she relayed to him a memory from her childhood. Imo, that’s not a good sign for her being in the middle states. Childhood memories are the strongest held and often the very last to go in Alzheimer’s patients. She could be close to late stage if the only memories she can share are from her childhood.
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a memory from when she was -2-, at that. it easily could have been confabulation, which isn't good, or her not being able to remember her age in childhood memories, which is also not good.
 
She won't last long, that much is clear to anyone.

It's a compilation of factors that people have mentioned so far: Poor health and nutrition, hoarding, dementia etc. If, following this whole event, she is taken into a care facility, those places don't give a shit about the elderly, and her condition will grow rapidly worse. I hesitate to put down a number but I think it's all been good guesses based on the info we have. 1-5 years seems about right.

There exists a suggestion that Barb played up her demented state, but if we are to take the leaked chat log as a reference point, recalling fleeting memories of herself as a child would suggest she's quite far down the line. It's a horrible, horrible disease to have, but the stage where you forget how to actually breathe is some ways to go yet.

What's especially horrific about dementia and Alzheimer's is how memories and impressions of the patient can distort. An elderly family member suffering from it once complained to my parents that they shouldn't let me go out at night at such a young age (at the time, I had just graduated from high school-- they thought I was still in elementary). With this in mind, I feel sick just thinking about what kind of warped visions might have been passing through her head as Chris violated her.

Either way, death would be a better option than spending another decade sitting in a dingy care room, being force-fed gruel, a hollow shell that can barely remember itself, throwing fits of confusion and despair whenever a glimmer of memory returns for but a moment.
 
Depends on the nursing home she ends up in. Some nursing homes neglect dementia patients, especially if they don't have family. Despite her dementia, somewhere in her mind she knows her son raped her because he did it multiple times and she will have flashbacks. What a horrible to end a life.
 
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Depends on the nursing home she ends up in. Some nursing homes neglect dementia patients, especially if they don't have family. Despite her dementia, somewhere in her mind she knows her son raped her because he did it multiple times and she will have flashbacks. What a horrible to end a life.
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Most nursing homes treat their residents like absolute garbage. If she ends up there it will slowly eat her soul away and she'll be dead within a few years. I think a close family member could take her in, but looking at their family tree briefly, apart from her sister, I have no idea who would take that offer up.

Cole has completely distanced himself from her, I would be very shocked if he tries to heal their broken relationship again.
 
My best guess is that she'll be put in a state-sponsored nursing home and be kept comfortable until the end. How long she has depends on how far the dementia has advanced, but regardless, it's a given that she's in her twilight years. My grandfather died of dementia and the decline was alarmingly rapid, to the point where he lost the ability to remember his own name and who his family members were. In Barb's case, given the crimes her son has committed, that would probably be for the best.
 
To be fair, we though that UN-CLIT 2 would kill Chris for good, yet fucker wasn't even hospitalized. Damn, he would've been healthier than all of us combined, if he wasn't a sperg.
 
Flavius Anthemius dijo:
Most nursing homes treat their residents like absolute garbage. If she ends up there it will slowly eat her soul away and she'll be dead within a few years. I think a close family member could take her in, but looking at their family tree briefly, apart from her sister, I have no idea who would take that offer up.

Cole has completely distanced himself from her, I would be very shocked if he tries to heal their broken relationship again.
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It's a possibility Cole will take care for Barb in some capacity. If I remember correctly, he was pretty upset when Bob kicked the bucket, and he hated Bob.
 
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