These cold days we've not been able to go out for our usual walks...also so many things and events happening during the holiday causing us to have to stay in. With this in mind I've noticed that Mac is not walking well, and as far as i'm concerned, walking is the best way for the brain to work well. It therefore follows without walking he isn't as on target or up to the mark. Who knows it may still be the effects of the disease, but to be sure, decided he should walk around the house.
While I was taking down the decorations, and having him do some of the work, I asked him to walk around to the kitchen, dining room front room and back..several times going round and round...it got to be quite funny. First he said, hey do i get paid for this, if so i demand 100$ per round...i said how about a chocolate...then he started to try to boogie as he walked...then became a guide as he pointed saying, looking right out the window we see a most beautiful day, lovely white snow. I interupted to say, so it's so nice want to go for a walk out doors...Forget that, says Mac, but then he started to walk a little better and a little faster, and as he came into the living room sang out , o.k. watchout here comes engine # 9...
Well he had me really laughing and what fun that is to see him so into what he was doing, walking I'm sure is the best...but and as i always say there always seems to be a but...When i had finished with the Christmas clean up, we waved goodbye to the tree, I brought down the boxes, fixed the lights so they'll work next year, and did all the sweeping of the pine needles and finally sat down...mac said, well you work too hard. I said not to worry, i'm going to rest now..he said, o.k.' then will you go home!!!...' Well no i replied, guess what I am home. "oh that's good says mac, not so far to go then. ' well actually that wasn't a joke though it may seem funny.
Now he is having a good time watching a train movie about VIA rail going coast to coast..sadly i seem to have done something to his hearing ear phones, theyre not working, and so have the damn tv so loud can hardly think. Don't know if i ever mentioned, but his earing and vision, is the pits...so probably most people know that visual perception problems go along with this disease...and his hearing has been quite bad for quite a few years, and along with his cane that rests in the corner , the hearing aids rest in a drawer to be checked out at a later date.
Jokes about memory are rampant on email, and i get a kick out of them, as my memory plays tricks on me as well, but it's kind of different when one sees how awful it is when one truly has a disease that makes one forget almost everything in life. Mac mentioned today how sad it is that his memory is gone, I said that is the disease Alzheimers...he said, well guess i'll just be happy that i'm still alive...and i said i'm happy you are too. so with those words i'll say - g'nite
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