My father's been getting more confused lately. He sees something on Instagram and doesn’t get the story right. Apparently a good friend of ours left his family and went to live in Boston to study at the university during this time of the virus. Oh and he told a friend his daughter and her husband were moving to Texas (he got the couple mixed up) and her father said well they didn’t tell me anything about it!! 😁 I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I guess I shouldn’t worry too much about what people think. I’m sure they will eventually realize he has dementia. Maybe it’s just difficult to accept the diagnosis myself.
For sure. It’s an emotional roller coaster.
So true. They become as helpless as very young children.
My family tree has longevity into the late 90s on both sides, so I always assumed I'd enjoy relating to my parents into my 70s like my parents and grandparents did. My mom is completely gone with dementia while still physically relatively healthy at age 81. Nothing left of the hero/best friend she was. My dear Dad is showing all the same symptoms, just a few years behind at 83. They live with me, so I see it 24/7.
My daughter's m-i-l (and my close friend) recently found cancer and passed within 7 months at the age of 72. As hard as that was for everyone, I pray every day that I would die of a physical ailment instead of losing my mind, forcing my children to witness this "disappearance" while having to try to keep my body alive for years.
My cousin is only 68, but, is end stage dementia, on hospice and wasting away to about 75 pounds. That is perhaps the most difficult thing I've had to witness. Six years of decline took her there.
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