Originally posted by: NightFlyerGTI
Haha! Well, I can't dog on them too much- my great grandmother, bless her heart, has Alzheimers and is in a nursing home here in Texas. Entertainment like this is about the only joy she gets anymore outside of frequent family visits. We visted her last December and saw similar performances going on after lunch, and everyone was waving their arms around, dancing in their chairs and having a great time. So good for them.
wow..you're lucky...
I honestly love my dad's mom a lot..as much as one can love agrandmother... but oh boy...it is getting awfully hard...moreso confusing to handle. She has alzheimers but no one can afford to have her properly taken care of in a home, so my aunt and her family keep her at home....that does WONDERS for a marriage
I really "miss" her
Now she is asking who I, the "Grande ole' tall man" am...ins spanish of course...Everytime she sees me she asks me who I am, how old I am and why I am so tall..


..EVERYTIME...even if she just turns around....after hours of being there that is all I could manage to get accross..about a dozen times
She frequently goes to the bathroom outside on the lawn, as if the outhouse she used as a child in El Salvador were still somewhere out there...
Why not use the toilet you ask?
The other day when I went to visit the family and found out why...she had forgotten what a toilet was and how to use "eso."


eso means "that" in spanish
And to think that the genes in my body could as easily provide me with such a wretched and demeaning death....
Alzheimers can suck a fat one...:|:|