Age does disturbing things to some minds. Alzheimer’s disease leaves many feeling like their memories are only scattered pieces. Life no longer makes sense, as short-term memory disappears. Stress levels increase and shut down. Confinement can become necessary to protect the person from wandering off or putting themselves in harm’s way. Some still remember the distant past and days of childhood. Happy and traumatic events from the past get repeated over and over again. Questions to visitors are repeated over and over again as well. It is very sad to see a person deteriorate in this way.
So true! I have a friend with it or Dementia…I don’t know. Sometimes, she relives the death of her brother and it is so sad! Excellent post!
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Thank you so much!
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Thank you! It is a very sad and difficult disease!
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The sadness and trauma of Alzheimer’s is eloquently depicted in your poignant Haiku….
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Thank you Ivor! It is sad to see!
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I know…………
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It’s so sad to see someone you love be terrorized by this memory robbing disease. 😣☹️😢 Nice, heartwarming stanza!!! 🤗
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Thanks Kym! It really is difficult to see this happen to people we love!
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I know. You feel so helpless because sadly there really isn’t anything that you can do but be present in the moment! 😦
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That is right!
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I spent a few years working on an Alzheimer’s unit……it is a horrid disease that robs people of their dignity and self………to watch it fade away is so very tragic.
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It must have been very traumatic for you!
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for their families yes, for me, it was just so sad……..
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I am sure it was!
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WOW, you did a fine job with this…elegant and poignant.
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Thank you so much! Reality can be very harsh sometimes!
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VERY harsh, friend…but there’s a lot of support here on the blogs, for which I’m ever grateful.
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Yes, a very encouraging place among friends!
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🙂 ❤
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Poignant. … 🙂
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Thank you very much!
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My mother suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. In a strange twist of fate, the last years of her life were very pleasant for her. She could not remember the tragedies that plagued her life: of growing up during the Great Depression, not being able to have children naturally (I am adopted), being cheated on and consequently divorced. These events left her very bitter and lacking of trust. Even though she did not know who I was in her final years, our visits were always full of laughter. Just as you pointed out in your Haiku, the leaves of this disease did cover the rust!
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Thank you, Robyn, for sharing this. That may be one of the good things that happens with this disease.
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It is sad, indeed, “to see a person deteriorate in this way,” so well expressed in your haiku poem.
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Thank you Rosilene! Leaves of age and time do cover some of the rust in our life!
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease! I worked with Alzheimer’s patients in a nursing home for several years. It’s bad enough to see what it does to the patient but to see what the family members go through is heartbreaking. 😦
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