Alzheimer's Toll

It is Wednesday the 19th of January, 2022. We start to our daily routine of Starbucks. Patty is unable to descend the stairs. I say, let’s not go today. I will make your breakfast sandwich and hot chocolate. We make it back to Patty’s chair in the living room. Patty says I am not hungry. We are done with our Starbucks routine. Patty is done with eating. She is done having hot chocolates. Food and drink are not on her things to do any longer. On Saturday she started home hospice. She died the following Tuesday January, 25th, 2022 at 4:45pm. with family at her side. Bridget arrived here, from Peru, at 10pm on the 24th. Alzheimer's has taken it’s toll.

Avi’s award winning image of two lovers in November 2018

I am surprised this final step went so fast. It’s been ten years with Alzheimer's. I figured that the loss of mobility might force outside memory care. I was thinking we were good at home for another year. Well Patty and Alzheimer's figured differently. I don’t know which , Alzheimer's or Patty, was in control with this final stage. I wouldn’t be surprised if Patty decided that, after failing mobility, that enough is enough. I am moving on. Stopping eating and drinking will do it, and maybe I can stay home and die with family at my bedside.

What a blessing, to have Patty at home for her final days. What a blessing to have so much good time together during the Alzheimer's years. There have been some trying time during the last few years, but Patty remained loving throughout. Her last words to me were, I love you.

Patty is my Rosebud. I shed tears of loss of her life. Her love that generates my tears is her ticket to eternal happiness. I pray to join her one day. I pray to love as she has, her entire life. May her internal living glow be cause for eternal glow.

Patty my Love