The doctors weren't treating her right, so I spent the day with her yesterday. It wasn't hard to see her in the hospital, it was hard to see her not know who I was. Her Alzheimer's has gotten bad enough that she doesn't know who I am. I was a stranger to her and it tore me apart when the nurse came in the room after I had been there for about four hours and my grandma asked who the stranger was in the room (me). For being over 90 she is in great health, but her mind is now gone. She asked about her grandsons and knew 'Nathan' but she couldn't put me with the name... Really a nutty disease and it's heart wrenching to see anyone go through it.
I've lost one grandma to Cancer and now I've lost the other one to Alzheimer's... We will all encounter these problems with our loved ones, so please continue to fold if not to help others for yourself when you get old.
Here is a picture of my grandma sitting in a chair and sleeping (they forced her to sit in a chair as she laid in a bed the past two days and they wouldn't let her up or out of the bed). She's in really good condition for her age and her body looks like it will go on, but the mind is a different story. I thought I'd open up and share this with you as I had to tell someone to get that off my chest.
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