It IS heartbreaking.
That is known as “failure to thrive.”
They must be fed from that point on.
I’m sorry that this is happening in your family.
I went through this with my Dad.
He was in assisted living at first-one day when
I went to see him, he was really searching my face.
Then he said “Honest to God, I don’t know who you are.”
My heart turned upside down, because then I knew he
was well and truly lost.
To this day, I don’t know how I held it together until
after our visit.
When I got into my car, I began sobbing, and I didn’t
stop for a very long time.
Thanks for the anniversary wishes!
Thanks for sharing. I’ve often wondered about this in life. Forgetting. I would imagine you have given it hours of thought. You’ve been blessed with understanding and a calling. What an enriched life you have MSBEHAVIN. God certainly has shined down on you. Hugs.
I remember Nancy Reagan calling it “The Long Goodbye.”
It truly is.
I realized last Nov. that my sister no longer knew me and I said my last goodbye to her then.
I choose to remember how she was in happier times.
So sorry that you had to go through it with your dad.
I remember my poor dad the first time my mom didn’t know who he was. He dialed the phone so she could talk to me. She told me there was a strange man in her house and he was trying to say he was her husband.