Alzheimer's disease is very baffling.It can make it's presence known so subtely. A friend of mine whom I had not seen for awhile, started to experience some startling symptons. I went to visit her one afternoon. She had already retired to her bedroom. I announced myself, and she invited me in, but she asked me to please close the door to her room because it was snowing outside. Well, just coming from outdoors, I was well aware that it was not snowing.
I glanced at her television and the screen was showing a snowy scene 'way up in the mountains.
My friend was getting the tv scenes mixed up with reality. She even asked me to start a fire in the stove in her room and make her some cornbread and vegetable soup. She said she wanted something nourshing so she could enjoy the snowfall. My friend glanced over at me and thanked me for cooking the food. Before I could tell her that I wasn't cooking anything, she fell asleep.
On my way out, I spoke with her daughter and son-in-law. They filled me in as to what they were going through in caring for her. But they were doing their utmost to give her the best care under their circumstances.
Alzheimer's is a baffling and devastating disease. It robs one of their soul. They become only a shell of the person they once were. The time can't come soon enough for a cure to be found.
With the researchers and the medical associations focusing on this critical issue, answers should be coming to the general public in the very near future.
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