Macaroons
Andrea sent a Mother’s Day package with yummy macaroons. She said she would share, but they must have tasted too good . She did not eat much dinner that night. 😁
We have been spending a lot of time outside. Mom helps with sweeping, although she loses focus quickly. she likes contributing nonetheless
I wanted to keep this paragraph from an article handy…. to help with my caregiver guilt.
Walking Mama Home: Dementia Patients can Lead Happy Lives that Matter.
MAY 20, 2020 BY REBECCA HAMILTON
“Dementia is a thief that takes away a person’s memory. But it doesn’t take away the person. They are still there, inside the layers of confusion and forgetting, whole and entire, utterly and completely themselves.
Everyone I know, including me, dreads the thought of ending their lives in the fog of forgetting and unknowing that is dementia. Mama feared dementia all her life. When the forgetting and confusion reached a certain point, she grieved the loss and feared where it was taking her.
Dementia is a thief and a cad. It steals good years when people could be living and loving and giving to their families and communities and turns them into years of ever-increasing dependence. But dementia also has it kindness.
People who suffer dementia come to the point where they don’t know that they don’t know. After that, their suffering is over. All the things that they would have regarded with humiliation and a feeling of degradation — the diapers, having someone else dress them, playing with trucks and Legos, dribbling food and forgetting, forgetting, forgetting — just become life.”
Walking Mama Home: Dementia Patients can Lead Happy Lives that Matter.
(The article turns into a rant about euthanasia, which I’m glad that’s not even an option here to be honest. )
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