Mother’s Day is in one week. I am not sure what to get Mom, last year I bought her a giant Mother’s Day card at the 99¢ Only Store. I would like to get her something different in 2011, but I have no idea what.
I found a photo of Mom and me, which I am posting with this entry. We set for the photo several years ago when Mom still worked at the Showboat Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. At the time, Mom worked as a food server in the coffee shop.
Mom enjoyed working in the coffee shop and she liked the people that worked with her. I do not know how much Mom remembers of that part of her life. I do not know if Mom remembers sitting for the photo. The Alzheimer’s disease has taken its toll on her and on the family. I never know what Mom remembers of yesterday or of the past ten or twenty years.
I attempt to get her to talk about the Showboat, sometimes she will talk about those years and sometimes she is silent. I will see what I can do to get her to talk about it this week; perhaps she will say something that I can use in a Mother’s Day gift.
I miss the woman my mother was before the Alzheimer’s disease. I am my mother caregiver and Mom is not the same woman who worked as a food server in the coffee shop at the Showboat. Then Mom was independent and happy.
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