Alzheimer's disease
If anyone who reads this is being faced with the job of caretaker, a few thoughts.
If it will involve someone you truly love, as I do my wife, it's better and worse than you think. Short term memory virtually disappears. You will be asked the same questions over and over. Is my mother still alive? No, she died 35 years ago, How's myDad? He died 3 years before your Mother. I have to write my friend, Marge Van?
She died 5 years ago. Has Lynn Stedman said when he's coming to visit us? We went to his funeral 20 years ago. How is my mother? It never stops
But if she, or he, was a church goer [mine was], she'll surprise you by singing all the hymns correctly. If you shared a true love,it can really get bad.
She'll tell you how much she loves you 20 times,or more, a day. But as she goes deeper and deeper there, she'll cuss you out also. The saving grace, she won't remember it 5 minutes later.
General health is an ongoing problem. My strength has virtually disappeared, and Marge's has too. This leads to falls, and you wonder which one will cause a serious break leading to death. and believe me this is how most elderly people like us cash in.
It helps a little to complain a little and now I have to leave and supervise changing the depends.
RHD
2 comments:
I'll be here for you for whatever I can do, pop. we are all in this together.
Hi Bob! I know exactly what you're going through since my grand-mother had alzheimer and she was living with us. She would want to drink a cup of coffee twenty times a day and wouldn't believe us if we said she just had a cup of coffee! and also she would always say "I have to pick up my son at sunday school, I'm going to be late" but as you say, she remembered all the old songs! take care bob and daughter!
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