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Posts Tagged ‘alzheimer’s disease’
God forgets
Posted: 10th March 2010 by ~m in God, Life, alzheimer's disease, blood, dark, fathers and daughters, haikuTags: advice, alzheimer's disease, fathers, Life, Love, white lies
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My Father’s Eyes
Posted: 1st March 2010 by ~m in Angels, Family, Irish, Life, Love, Personal, Sad, YouTube, alzheimer's disease, blood, dark, deep thought, hero, questions, wishesTags: alzheimer's disease, Clapton, Dad, eyes, goodbyes, Love, sadness
It’s like watching the slow and dying embers in the backyard firepit on a sultry summer’s night. In some ways I understand it, some I don’t. Maybe it’s meant to be that way. It’s hard enough to watch someone you love die but it’s the ‘dying marathon’ of Alzheimer’s that really hurts inside. I had [...]
Bleeker Street
Posted: 26th January 2010 by ~m in Family, Forever, God, Life, Love, Personal, Sad, Truth, Wrong, alzheimer's disease, blues, darkTags: alzheimer's disease, Dad, Deep thoughts, God, Love, prayer
He stares blindly out the window of another night down on Bleeker Street, where nothing seem to change except a world gone mad.He exists.I exist.I go to him, touch his shoulder feeling the quivering bone underneath my handbut he doesn’t move, nobody is home it seems.As I bend to kiss his forehead, I think back [...]
Churchbell
Posted: 5th January 2010 by ~m in Dreams, Family, God, Irish, Life, Personal, Sad, alzheimer's disease, blues, chances, dark, empty, health, hero, prayerTags: alzheimer's disease, fathers, goodbyes, hate, inevitable, Life, Love
Off in a not too distant somewhere, I hear the shimmering sound of church bells.Melancholy yet beautiful, their dissonance fills the night air with a longing, a void filled, an endless possibility. Dark grey clouds move low across the sky saturated with change; change of the heart and mind, soul and body, a chasm of [...]
Stop
Posted: 15th December 2009 by ~m in Family, Food, Forever, God, Life, Memoir, Personal, Rants, Sad, alzheimer's disease, blues, dark, empty, fuck thisTags: alzheimer's disease, sadness, signs
Maybe it’s a sign of survival, of anguish,
of the frightening realization that mortality does exist in the deepest recesses of the mind.
Maybe it’s a sign that everything is still changing,
still in that near frozen state of flux . . .
For him, for me, for the four walls that still imprison him,
for a world that looks [...]
Letter to Papa
Posted: 19th June 2009 by ~m in Dreams, Family, Irish, Life, Love, Personal, Sad, Shaving, Truth, alzheimer's disease, eye dew, fathers and daughters, hope, prayer, wishesTags: alzheimer's disease, Family, Father's Day, fathers, Life, Love
Dear Dad,
I know you’ll never read this but I wanted to take a few minutes
and tell the world how very much you mean to me and Maureen.
We miss so many things about you; your laugh, your smile, your once bright eyes,
the way you used to drive Mom nuts whenever you tried to sing,
how proud you [...]
Quiet Place
Posted: 30th March 2009 by ~m in Birthdays, Family, God, Life, Love, alzheimer's disease, dancing, deaths, hopeTags: alzheimer's disease, Birthdays, Love, Video
Our Mom would have been 81 today.
It was on my mind from the minute I got up today.
For her wake, I made a CD with a slew of tunes that I thought she would like.
This was one of them.
Unfortunately, the audio quality on this is real sub par for Take Six.
Get out the headphones.
It helps.
Whoever [...]
SkyJump for Alzheimer’s Disease
Posted: 29th March 2009 by ~m in Angels, Blogging, Cool Sites, God, Internet, Life, Personal, Truth, alzheimer's disease, amazing, chances, heroTags: alzheimer's disease, cancer research, coincidence, inspiring, Wordpress themes
Everyone knows that I am the ultimate theme junkie and that’s an understatement.
I found this current theme called KillerLight created by Simon Smith sitting peacefully in the Wordpress.Org
‘new themes’ archive.
I had to have it for a number of reasons.
I decided to visit Simon’s website this morning and I left a brief comment regarding
the animated background [...]
He forgets
Posted: 30th January 2009 by ~m in Angels, Family, God, Irish, Life, Love, Memoir, Personal, Sad, Stars, Truth, alzheimer's disease, blues, dark, prayer, the Cosmos, twinsTags: alzheimer's disease, blues, fathers, God, Just words, Life, Sad
No one knows what it’s like,
maybe even him
the days are like carbon copies of days gone by, yesterdays passed;
more of the same, the blooming of a thousand shades of grey
And life is grey; maybe it’s the only shade he knows . . .
No one knows what it’s like
maybe even me
as I take in his awkward [...]
True Love Ways
Posted: 2nd July 2008 by ~m in Angels, Family, Life, Love, Personal, alzheimer's disease, chancesTags: alzheimer's disease, email, Love, Mom & Dad, Sad, story, true love ways
I don’t make a point of posting email I receive but this one, well, this one was different.
It was from my friend, Lynn.
While reading it, I couldn’t get my sister out of my head because she’s a nurse and has probably been in a situation very similar.
Though my mother and father’s story reads a [...]