Dale Parsons is widowed after 63 years, has one son, 3 lovely grandkids and 5 beutriful great grand kids 2 - 16 years. Near blindness ended his amtique radio hobby. Still putters in garden.
This attempt to portray the picture of one woman’s struggle with the devastation of dementia, assumed to be Alzheimer’s disease, is as seen thru the eyes of her husband. Let me try to paint a preview as I dimly understood it – necessarily a very simplistic view from my "vantage" point.
On her part it has not been a battle in the sense of trying to live with a terrible physically painful illness. But it certainly has been a constant, tormented, tortured struggle striving to understand what has happened to her world. Of course we cannot go into her mind, and sadly she seemingly cannot describe the scenery she experiences.
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that She lives in a state of ever changing puzzlement in which one or more relations always seems missing and when the wayward part is put in place others drop out and here she must go diving into that morass over and over again. It appears there is a compulsion to solve those twisted relationships before she can get any rest.
Mental incapacity due to Alzheimers arises from individual brain cells becoming insulated from each other. Signals between brain areas therefore become blocked and corrupted . Because the brain especially a crippled one can selectively shut down body organs, Alzheimer death can occur in countless forms.
The story as presented here relies largely on a collection of notes, and email messages to her grand children and friends. The purpose is twofold, I owe it to her to tell her story and hopefully it might help others who are trying to deal with a similar situation. If readers find parts of this repetitious, the only apology offered is, that is exactly the way she experienced it.
About Dale Parsons
Dale Parsons attempts tio portray a picture of a loved one sufferung from the mind destroying Alzheimer disease. He hopes this might help focus attentiom on and find a cure of generation threatening dementia
Dale Parsons is widowed after 63 years, has one son, 3 lovely grandkids and 5 beutriful great grand kids 2 - 16 years. Near blindness ended his amtique radio hobby. Still putters in garden.
Dale Parsons attempts tio portray a picture of a loved one sufferung from the mind destroying Alzheimer disease. He hopes this might help focus attentiom on and find a cure of generation threatening dementia