Maryland family learns to cope with dementia GREG SWATEK, The Frederick News-Post May 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail BRADDOCK HEIGHTS, Md. (AP) — Flies swarmed around the trunk of Leah DuRant’s car, and she wondered what could have possibly stirred them up. Turns out, it was an ominous warning sign for what lied ahead. Three or four days earlier, DuRant had gone to Costco and, by her son John’s estimate, purchased $200 worth of meat products. But the shopping bags never made it inside her Braddock Heights home. So, when the trunk popped open nearly 100 hours later, the flies and the maggots were already laying waste to what DuRant had bought as if it were a dead animal along the side of the road. She seemed shocked.