‘Idál (Justice), 18 Rahmat (Mercy), 169 BE – Wednesday, July
11, 2012 about 11:35 AM Pacific Time
Sometimes I feel so alone. I know I am not alone, there are
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people just like me who are carrying for loved
one with Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia. It is just that on
mornings like this, when Mom wants to cry and one or more of her physical
medical issues manifest itself, I feel alone and disconnected from humanity.
All caregivers encounter this emotion when they feel overwhelmed by their loved
one’s mental and physical problems.
Besides short-term memory lose, which goes along with
Alzheimer’s disease, Mom is afflicted with emotional or anger issues, Macular
degeneration, hearing lose, urinary incontinence, and fecal incontinence. Mom
has hearing aids to alleviate some of the hearing lose, but most of the time
she objects to wearing them. I put the hearing aids in each morning after her
bath and then pray that she keeps them in all day or if she does take them out
then they end up in her purse.
Each morning, before it is even time to get her up, I give
her a pill to help with the agitation. I have to get her to sit up so that she
can take the pill because if I simply put it in her mouth without a drink of
water she will spit the pill out. If she spits the pill out then it has no
effect upon her moods.
Monday through Friday, Mom goes to an adult daycare center.
Monday through Friday, the hospice she sends a C.N.A. to give her a shower
(which Mom is not crazy about, but it is necessary). After the shower, the bus
from the daycare center picks Mom up and takes her to the center. Mom enjoys
going to the center. Mom enjoys herself when she is at the daycare center.
Whenever I drop in Mom is having a good time.
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