Furry Chicken Makes Alzheimer's Patient Express Joy As Well As Creates A Lasting Memory

When she saw them she exclaimed loudly, “Look honey, it’s a furry chicken!!!”

By Carole Larkin

Silkie

Well, I’ve in conclusion lived long plenty inwards Texas to teach my “papers”. It takes twenty years, you lot know.

Many of those years I’ve gone to the Texas State Fair, likely because it’s conveniently located inwards Dallas, where I live. The Texas State Fair is over three weeks long, covers a huge amount of the world space, has a huge midway alongside all kinds of rides as well as games to play, vi or vii bands playing inwards a day’s time, as well as all kinds of food.

There’s a rival each twelvemonth featuring unique fried food. This year’s winners were: fried bubble mucilage (Yuk!) as well as fried Buffalo Chicken inwards flapjacks. They’ve had only about pretty foreign materials over the years.

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Of course, the animals are in that place daily. There are days as well as days of children as well as adults showing off their prized cows, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, etc.

One fourth dimension I happened to teach on poultry day, as well as to sentiment the poultry to endure judged. There were turkeys as well as ducks as well as chickens. All was proceeding unremarkably until I spotted a chicken that looked similar it had fur, non feathers. It stopped me inwards my tracks. It looked similar a large white puff ball stuck on top of two sticks alongside two lilliputian puffballs stuck on the other halt of those sticks. I was mesmerized as well as enchanted. They came inwards unlike colors too!

Some had as well as then much “fur” you lot couldn’t fifty-fifty encounter their eyes, only the rattling halt of their beaks. I wondered how they could tell the boys from the girls- I couldn’t. Yet they had to receive got been able to tell which sex others were because they kept showing upward twelvemonth subsequently year. You know what I mean!

I at i time dubbed them Furry Chickens as well as tried to present upward on poultry 24-hour interval every twelvemonth since I discovered them. Eventually I flora out their existent breed’s advert is Silkies. I similar my advert for them improve though, it’s to a greater extent than descriptive.

Later, subsequently I had brought my woman raise to Dallas, gotten her diagnosed (Alzheimer’s), as well as she had settled inwards nicely at a local assisted living, I would tell her the even out of the furry chickens. She wouldn’t believe me, of course, but we’d brand upward stories virtually them as well as express mirth as well as express mirth virtually them. I could ever teach her out of a fowl (pun intended) mood yesteryear telling her the even out of the furry chickens.

Then i year, I in conclusion hauled her downward to the dry reason fair on poultry day, as well as showed them to her. It was quite a business for me to do, but absolutely worth it.

When she saw them she exclaimed loudly, "Look honey, it's a furry chicken!!!" I said “by God it is!!!”, as well as nosotros started laughing.

Carole as well as a Furry Chicken

It took awhile for us to in conclusion halt laughing. Mom refused to run out their side; instead she pulled on the arm of every passerby as well as said “Look, it’s a furry chicken!” They’d commencement to laugh, causing us to commencement laughing all over again. Finally, she got tired, as well as I took her dorsum to her assisted living. As I was going out the front end door, I heard her telling all that walked yesteryear her virtually the furry chickens, as well as laughing alongside them. What a wonderful minute she had. It’s i of my rattling best memories of her.


Now, when I teach to the fair on poultry day, as well as I encounter the furry chickens, I ever recall of that 24-hour interval alongside Mom, as well as I state to myself, “Mom, see, hither they are. The furry chickens!” as well as I express mirth as well as laugh.

Now you lot tin express mirth as well as express mirth too. Maybe you’d similar to present the painting present to your mom (or dad or hubby or pregnant other).

Carole Larkin MA,CMC,CAEd,QDCS,EICS,
is a Geriatric Care Manager who specializes inwards helping families alongside Alzheimer’s as well as related dementias issues. She also trains caregivers inwards habitation aid companies, assisted livings, retentiveness aid communities, as well as nursing homes inwards dementia specific techniques for best aid of dementia sufferers. ThirdAge Services LLC, is located inwards Dallas, TX.

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