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A sketch of our day in and day out with Alzheimer’s disease

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Whole Heart In

My mom wasn’t my best friend. We had a really difficult relationship through my childhood up until I got out from under her roof in my mid-twenties. When I returned to my…

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January 12, 2016 by elizabethgracewolf
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A Hallucination Inside a Hallucination

You cannot force this disease into submission, no matter how much anger your exhaustion riles after another sleepless night. Or if there was sleep, it came in choppy waves of fitful delusions…

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December 8, 2015 by elizabethgracewolf
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They Never Told Me She Would Forget How to Sleep

It is hard to describe the early days of an Alzheimer’s sentence. A gentle fog rolls in and lingers for a while, deepening ever so gradually until one day you wake in…

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October 29, 2015 by elizabethgracewolf
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The Sight of Her Alone

The day program driver is delivering Dad home. I watch from the picture window as they round the corner toward our driveway. The car is still rolling as Dad unfastens his safety…

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October 28, 2015 by elizabethgracewolf
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I Need an Umbrella to Help Mom In

Many hours will pass before she arrives home, but already he is preparing. “What are you looking for Dad?” I ask, when I find him on his knees in the hallway rummaging through…

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October 28, 2015 by elizabethgracewolf
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Cereal Bowls and Spoons

Back in May 2013, 3 years after my parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, my siblings and I decided to trial a month-long respite stay for both of them at a local memory care facility.…

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October 28, 2015 by elizabethgracewolf
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Mother’s Day Angel-Demons

I lay a gentle hand on her shoulder. It’s nearly 11 am and she’s still tucked under last night’s covers. “Momma,” I say, then I stroke the hair falling soft across her…

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October 21, 2015 by elizabethgracewolf
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Like Gold from a Dusty Riverbed

We pull up to the market, though I do not expect her to understand this. Any of this. That we have arrived somewhere – the grocery store. That such arriving implies something…

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October 20, 2015 by elizabethgracewolf
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#HappyCatMonth Adoption Story

Before my father’s Alzheimer’s stole half his lifetime of memories, his favorite story to tell was about the day we met our beautiful Beleza. We had already picked out a name for…

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October 20, 2015 by elizabethgracewolf
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And will remember it to her

The house is quiet but for the spring birds singing above the distant and continuous sigh of the highway. Momma’s bedroom door is ajar and I enter to find her lying so…

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October 20, 2015 by elizabethgracewolf

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