Alzheimer's Abode Sweetness Home

If I endure from Alzheimer's affliction I am going for it, no doubtfulness nearly it - I'm going home.

By Bob DeMarco


They say lx percentage of persons living alongside Alzheimer's disease volition wander. This comes every bit no surprise to me.

Ever wonder where the bulk of these wanderers are going?

Home Sweet Home

I'm going for it.

Let me laid about alongside my all fourth dimension favorite wandering story.

A human suffering from Alzheimer's affliction wandered from a Denver, Colorado suburb to San Diego, California.

How did he produce it?

He walked downwards to the corner as well as took populace shipping to the Greyhound charabanc station. He as well as then took a serial of buses to San Diego. He was missing for 3 days earlier beingness found.

If he could produce it, thus tin dismiss I. No doubt. I'm going for it.

I'm going to Avon Road inwards the Somerton department of Philadelphia.

Why not?

On Avon Road nosotros ever had enough of nutrient to eat. I didn't fifty-fifty convey to pay for it. Dad was a mill worker as well as Dotty worked too. I never heard anyone say this merely our identify unit of measurement motto must convey been -- pile it high as well as sentinel it fly. I am referring to dinner.

On Avon Road I played stick ball alongside my best buddy -- Tommy Shields. Football inwards the snow. I fifty-fifty had my commencement neat chore -- when I was nine years old.

After Billy as well as Joanne left (my blood brother as well as sister), I had pizza almost every Fri night. Frank (my dad) would say what produce you lot want? Duh. Pizza. And away nosotros would teach to Paisan's pizza.

Guess what I did when I got my license at historic catamenia 16. I started hunting downwards all the neat pizza places inwards Philadelphia -- Stumpo's, Pizza City, as well as my all fourth dimension favorite -- Charlie's on Oxford Circle.

I also started my dear affair alongside my favorite cheese steak identify -- Pats Steaks at ninth as well as Wharton. At Pat's you lot stand upward on the sidewalk as well as consume your steak sandwich. There is no within at Pat's. I in 1 lawsuit ate a cheese steak at that spot afterwards driving 185 miles to teach it. As presently every bit I was done, nosotros turned around as well as drove some other 185 miles to teach dorsum to Penn State. I nestling you lot not.

I'm going for it.

It is nearly 1210 miles from Delray Beach to Avon Road. I convey no doubtfulness I'll brand it. It won't locomote hard. All I volition involve to produce is teach on Interstate 95 (about 1.5 miles from here). I tin dismiss get due north until I come upward to the downtown teach out for Philadelphia -- a straight off shot upward I-95.

Yeah, I'll teach off at that spot as well as caput over to Pat's Steak. Only a twain of miles from the interstate highway. Pizza wit (steak sandwich alongside cheese wiz, pizza sauce, as well as onions). That's my call.

It won't matter. The locks on the door won't halt me. Nothing is going to deter me. I'm heading out. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 human on a mission.

Home Sweet Home.

Figure inwards the twelvemonth 2040.

Well, at that spot mightiness locomote 1 thing that could deter me.

Maybe I'll locomote living inwards a safe, secure surroundings that is every bit adept or ameliorate than

Home Sweet Home.

Maybe they volition locomote feeding me pizza, pepsi, as well as giant Hershey bars. Maybe I'll locomote happy as well as content as well as without worry.

Maybe I'll experience the love. Maybe I'll experience the same means I did when I was 12 years old. Plenty of nutrient as well as care.

In that case, mayhap I'll conclude I am dwelling -- Home Sweet Home.

Therein lies the moral to this story.

Advice as well as Insight into Alzheimer's as well as Dementia

• Test Your Memory for Alzheimer's (5 Best Tests)
• What is the Difference Between Alzheimer’s as well as Dementia
• Dementia as well as the Eight Types of Dementia
• Why I Invented Alzheimer's World as well as the Power of Positive Reinforcement
• Learning How to Communicate alongside Someone Suffering From Alzheimer's Disease
• Alzheimer's Disease Statistics

Bob DeMarco is the Founder of the as well as an Alzheimer's caregiver. The ARR cognition base of operations contains to a greater extent than than 3,811 articles alongside to a greater extent than than 306,100 links on the Internet. Bob lives inwards Delray Beach, FL.

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