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I grew up in Vienna Austria.

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I lived there until I was 21 years old.

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I met an American who and fell in love

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and married him. I moved from Vienna

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city of 2 million to a city in Kansas which was

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quite a change.

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When my mother first moved in here she

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was such an independent person.

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She was capable of everything.

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we knew that she needed to move into a community when she

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could still enjoy it. She would still be

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active enough to be a participant.

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we moved her early when it was reasonable

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and perfect timing but in the last two

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years when we have desperately needed

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that extra help that's where it's all

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come through from me.

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My back broke and it was really major operation.

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She did need a lot of care after the surgery and

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she was able to get all that she needed

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right here. The doctors come here to this

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location. The physician's assistant comes

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here to this location. It's all just

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right here. It was hard for a long time

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but we got through it

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and we couldn't have done it without them.

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It was just so comforting to me to have

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the safety net the people here to

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help me to help her. There are so many

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things in your lives that you need to

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adjust to and that was a large one.

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Accepting what has to be accepted and

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being able to do that without grudging

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or anything and being thankful that my

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daughter and my son helped me see that I

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needed that. Brookdale has absolutely

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helped my life. I don't have an idea

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where I would be in the level of stress

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if I didn't have the reliability of the

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people here

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