My mother has Alzheimer's and is now living with us. It's so sad to watch her memory deteriorate. It's not just that she has trouble with short-term memory, she is forgetting our history. I can't say to her, Hey mom, remember when... Because she doesn't. She remembers way back when she was a young girl, which I understand is typical of this disease. Their long-term memory is intact for a long time. It's the latter thing to go. But she doesn't remember my childhood. Or people we knew and loved during my lifetime. She asks me if I remember when her daddy did this and that. Well, her dad died before I was born. So, No, I don't remember him doing any of those things. Our conversations are related to something happening on TV or the weather, or something our dogs did that was cute. But nothing about our history. It's very sad.
What do you think? Lets talk about it.
