Oh boy. Sorry Rhonda. Oh yeah, I know what that's like.
I was the caregiver/power of attorney for my piano teacher for her last dozen years. -- The years where she was clearly slipping away.
It's so hard to watch a person gradually disappear. What's worse is that I'm pretty sure they are still "in there". I think that there is
some part of an Alzheimer's sufferer that knows who they are, sometimes what they want to say, but the wetware is just failing.
I was quite certain that she did know who I was at some level - even when she was asking me "what's your name?".
It's that piece that I was holding on to - trying to give her all sorts of fun outings to improve her quality of life. Thankfully, she died
very peacefully in her sleep, in her own home and her own bed.
Hang in there. They'll find a cure (or at least, a decent treatment) for this disease some time soon.
-- Fuzz
I was the caregiver/power of attorney for my piano teacher for her last dozen years. -- The years where she was clearly slipping away.
It's so hard to watch a person gradually disappear. What's worse is that I'm pretty sure they are still "in there". I think that there is
some part of an Alzheimer's sufferer that knows who they are, sometimes what they want to say, but the wetware is just failing.
I was quite certain that she did know who I was at some level - even when she was asking me "what's your name?".
It's that piece that I was holding on to - trying to give her all sorts of fun outings to improve her quality of life. Thankfully, she died
very peacefully in her sleep, in her own home and her own bed.
Hang in there. They'll find a cure (or at least, a decent treatment) for this disease some time soon.
-- Fuzz
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
