Last night while Mac and I sat in his room waiting for the preposees to come to get him ready for bed. He became quite lucid asking - where will you sleep? Why not here? He was much clearer in his thinking yesterday Obviously, and it left me feeling rather awful to leave him there, but I explained as best I could that he had an operation and needed more care. Aside from the fact that his walking is not the greatest, he would be too much for me to care for at night if he should need the bathroom etc. BUT, I added I will definitely be here for you in the morning. With that he looked at me with his big blue eyes, a bit teary, and said "Is that a promise"...
Well that nearly undid me, as that is something we always said if one or the other was not too happy with a situation. The unhappy one would ask that things should change or whatever, and if the other said, sure I'll do this or that, or will change my way...the one wanting the change would then say "Is that a promise", and that is how our marriage was really pretty solid as for both of us a "promise" was the most important thing - and it had to be taken seriously. One could be wishy-washy, about whatever, but the word "promise", meant it was for sure, and no ifs ands or buts, it was the way it would be. And so I answered,
"Mac I certainly promise you...I will be HERE in the morning, and I was. Was he there, well for sure, but would he get up..."no way jose", go away..but finally by 10:30 a.m. I said, I'm going to get some groceries be
back soon. So at 11;30, there he was sitting up, dressed and bushy tailed, waiting for me to take him to our apartment.
So now I'm hoping our government will PROMISE...to carry out the following, there is more online about the plan, but here is the gist of it :-
Media Release
For Immediate Distribution
Alzheimer Society of Canada applauds agreement to create national dementia plan
TORONTO, Ont. (October
2
, 2014)
–
The Alzheimer Society of Canada welcomes Health Minister
Rona Ambrose’s announcement
yesterday
that she and her provincial
and territorial
counterparts have agreed to collaborate on a national plan to curb
the staggering personal,
societal and economic toll of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
“This is excellent news,” said Mimi Lowi
-
Dementia is a huge threat to our public health system and to our nation's productivity. It’s vital
that we address it collectively in a coordinated way
to make sure people living with this disease
get the help they
need and that our researchers
can
determine what causes it and can better
understand how to treat it.”
So that's the latest news on the problem that effects so many around he world...To see the people on the 2nd floor, sitting in a large circle in the solarium around the t.v. - after lunch, all sitting with their eyes closed, hardly noticing each other or speaking, is really sad. reminds me of a movie I never thought I would see anyone I knew in that condition, the movie was "Cocoon"...
The news in this place is that Mac is sitting listening to music, eyes closed but his feet are dancing up and down in time...I will try to give him a before bedtime walk around the people sitting in the lobby, although they too have the big A. for some it is not so advanced and they enjoy
having Mac well and waving to them..we will say goodnight to Alice our former dining table friend. Mac does not go down to eat there anymore, in fact Mac is still not eating..doc says by next week if he is still not eating i.e. only boost milkshakes, he will take him off one of his meds as it is a bit of an appetite depresser. or something. we'll see...so on we go for our in-house walk. bye now
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