Wednesday, December 14, 2016

The Trajectory Sucks

Jim slowly is disintegrating from dementia and will die demented unable to walk, talk, think, eventually unable to breathe as his lungs fill with fluid. I don't have much patience for the well-meaning advice of medical sorts and friends who suggest this, that and the other on the off chance it will help him live longer.
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  1. KATHARINE WEBERDecember 15, 2016 at 4:28 PM

    I'm sorry. I don't know if it is helpful or painful to realize that while you carry this awareness with you and it is part of your reality, it isn't part of Jim's. He is now mostly living in the present, moment by moment by moment, with the past getting more blurry, including the very recent past, and the future becoming more and more incomprehensible to him. I don't know if that is any kind of comfort to you, or if it is infuriating and burdensome.

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    1. Falling to PiecesDecember 17, 2016 at 5:59 PM

      Another perspective is, in fact useful. I just need to stop being so sad.

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