Thank you, jaycee. My mother had suffered senile dementia..but she was in her nineties..I cared for her on weekends..It broke my heart..It is so hard to parent a parent who is in such a condition.
I know you suffered watching your dear mother, too.
So many of us have experienced the devastating results.
They first diagnosed my Mom with dementia and I took her to lots of doctors because I knew it was more. I even took her to the big Duke Hospital and of course, the terrible diagnosis was Altzeimer’s. (those dreaded words). It was a very long, drawn out part of our lives. At one time in this long event, my hubby looked at me one day and saw that I was about to lose it. He said “Jane, I want you to get one or two of your friends and go to Myrtle Beach for a few days.” He told me “that I had to get away from it and he would take care of everything for me and it would be alright.”
And I called my best friend Nancy and we planned the trip and her sister went with us. We did have a wonderful time and it was so good for me to get away from it for a few days. (I had a wonderful husband, thats for sure and I miss him daily.) Someday, we will all be together again, won’t we?