My mother is in Stage 7 Alzheimers. She is cared for by my brother who spends his day watching MSNBC.. ( big Detroit liberal)..My mother sits there holding his hand and saying 2 things over and over:
1. “I love you honey honey honey honey honey” (she’s up to 4 honeys now)
2. “Am I okay?”
She is quite happy doing that over and over-— all day.. and sits there with a smile on her face. She cannot write her name.. She doesn’t understand a thing about what is on TV.. She has no memory of her family, her history, her 5 children...
quite sad for us... but not for her.
she is happy and for that I am grateful. She has a quality of life, such as it is. She deserves life.. We are keeping her comfortable...at 85 she would not survive any invasive surgery... we are keeping her comfortable... happy...
love to all with this terrible disease and for those caring souls who care for the inflicted.
God bless you. My husband’s great aunt had Alzheimer’s. She lived to her late 80s, and was not unhappy, although at times she behaved uncharacteristically. When she passed away, her older sister was very sad and lonely, as they had lived together for a number of years after their husbands had passed on.
God bless your mom and family. She may be doing more for you all than you are for her. The sad fact is that nobody wants to talk about the effects the Alzheimer, Dementia and other old age conditions people face, may be for the betterment of those around them. These folks are still people, created in God’s image. They deserve to be cared for until natural death.