Yeah, we have this in my family as well, and my mother's case moved fairly quickly. It's weird how it messes with your notion of grief, because it's just this constant slide of losing little parts of them that you'll never get back. I don't think I've ever grieved more in my life than when I realized I'd never hear her play piano again. There are a lot of small details like that, but that's the one that hit hardest for me so far. But it never lets you fully grieve, because fully grieving feels like it's denying that part of the person is still there. So you're kept in this half-grief state for years. I remember my parents going through the same thing with my grandmother, although it never occured to me what they must have been going through emotionally at the time.
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