Dotty's Says, I'm Non Dead Yet
Persons living amongst Alzheimer's don't desire your pity, they desire your help, understanding, together with love.
By Dotty DeMarco
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I'm non suffering from Alzheimer's disease, I receive got Alzheimer's disease.
Before nosotros acquire started, create you lot run into that motion painting on the left? Bobby says nosotros receive got to job that motion painting inwards this article because I volition live on giving all of you lot about insight together with advice almost persons living amongst Alzheimer's.
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Now for the insight together with advice. Please read this carefully.
I'm non dead.
You can't grab Alzheimer's from a someone living amongst Alzheimer's.
You can't grab Alzheimer's from a someone living amongst Alzheimer's.
And, nosotros desire to live on treated similar nosotros are living, breathing, human beings.
Please read those words every twenty-four hours until they sink in.
For about argue when people honour out I receive got Alzheimer's, they assume I'm dying. Well according to Bobby I was diagnosed to a greater extent than than 7 years ago. I'm non dead yet.
Here is something you lot should understand. We are all dying. Some people cash inwards one's chips young, about people cash inwards one's chips old. Do you lot live on your life spell thinking, I'm gonna die?
I'm non dead yet.
Just this calendar week I am munching away on about delicious chocolate covered white patato chips. Carole Larkin sent those to us. Thank you lot Carole. Carole must know that I am withal alive.
On New Years Eve, Bobby is talking me downtown to run into the fireworks at midnight. I must withal live on live because nosotros are going.
I don't desire to live on treated similar I am dying. I desire to live on treated the same means everyone is treated.
Sure, my encephalon is sick thus you lot receive got to adjust. I would suit if I could but I can't. So I am relying on you lot to adjust.
Persons living amongst Alzheimer's don't desire your pity, they desire your help, understanding, together with love.
You should empathise that persons living amongst Alzheimer's are a flake to a greater extent than delicate together with thus they were earlier their encephalon became ill.
We tend to acquire confused to a greater extent than easily, together with when nosotros acquire confused nosotros mightiness acquire mean. Do you lot e'er acquire confused together with and thus acquire angry? Does this hateful you lot are dying. I don't call upward so.
Please assay together with empathise that we, the persons living amongst dementia, acquire to a greater extent than easily confused than you lot do. Don't acquire angry, delight assay together with move along us out of situations where nosotros mightiness acquire confused.
No, I didn't country receive got our lives away from us thus nosotros won't acquire confused.
We desire to live. So, honour a means to allow us to live on along amongst everyone but assay to move along inwards hear that nosotros sometimes receive got exceptional needs.
Dementia is dementia. So when a someone is living amongst dementia in that place are symptoms of the illness. Read that discussion carefully, symptoms. We are non nuts.
Like Bobby says, our brains are a flake "fracted", fragmented thus to speak. Some of the parts are broken. Learn which parts are broken, together with delight acquire which parts are non broken. You mightiness live on surprised that many parts of our encephalon are withal working merely fine.
I create receive got a pet peeve.
You know all those articles that include tips on how to bargain amongst someone living amongst dementia? Does anyone e'er call upward to hold back at these situations from the perspective of the someone living amongst dementia? You mightiness create improve if you lot assay looking at these province of affairs from our betoken of view.
Give that about thought.
In closing. Some bad homo said, "there are no survivors of Alzheimer's". That dips**** should come upward downwards hither to Delray Beach together with beak to me. Its crap similar that that gets people all confused.
We are non dead. Sure, nosotros volition cash inwards one's chips someday together with thus volition you.
In the meantime, lets showtime living our lives.
I desire a cheese steak.
Dotty went to Heaven on May 25, 2012
Dorothy DeMarcois a contributing author together with oft portrayed grapheme on the . Dotty resided inwards Delray Beach, FL. To read or subscribe to Dotty's weblog go here.
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