Saturday, November 17, 2007

one armed paper hanger

My poor friend Norma-she had her husband who suffers from Alzheimers and parkinsons as well, all set to go to Sheridan to the veterans home for a week. She broke her right arm and is in a cast from her fingers to above her elbow. Sadly, she did it three weeks ago and due to bad doctors just got it casted two days ago. She will be wearing the cast for at least 6 weeks and her life is extremely hard cleaning up after her man. All the arrangements were made and she had a driver for the trip, him packed and the paper work ready when he refused to go. She is not able to care for him now, and was at her wits end. She chose to leave him and move in with her sister. He is unable to care for himself and has become lost three times in the last two months and fallen and could not get up once. Her only choice would have been to have him put in restraints and taken against his will. What an awful thing this disease is as it robs judgement. He will have forgotten all about it if she goes home, but she won't forget about it, and cannot care for him anymore. To say heartbreak is to greatly understate the situation-now what will happen next?

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