Nan your dementia is getting worse
You now forget to quench your thirst
I see everyone trying so hard
Mostly your granddaughter helping you cope
No one knowing your mind, not even yourself at anytime
At this moment the morphine has put you to sleep
For everyday is now closer to letting you keep it
Knowing that you will no longer suffer this unknowingly growth
As my heart sinks every minute with you unable to know
Life is definitely not a bed of roses, I'm thanking you for all the memories you provided
I'm now asking the universe to help guide you to the door.
As you've slowly deteriorated over the years, but I know there is no answer to this, so I can only give you the tear on my cheek.
Thank you for the children you had, that then had me
You gave us much love that has never left me.
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Poetic Dan (
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- Comment from author about the poem: This was written a few weeks when I was up visiting, she has bounced back a bit but has been bed bound for over 2 years. Slowly she difts as we try to make it easy as we can for her. Much love to my amazing sister who is with her full time. Amazing lady's all around me!
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Dementia is such an awful disease, I know, my wife has it and I have to do practically everything for her but I do have our memories, she no longer has them though which is so sad.
It is a hard part of life that makes you re-evaluate life. Words get lost, I hope for much peace in her comfort with you.
This quite touched me - my father had it and never knew me any more towards the end. He would have been devastated had he been aware how much he was affected.
But if he had been aware he wouldn't have had it. Well you know what I mean.
It's the only blessing of the disease that they don't know...........
Thank you both and it is very true, for some to have to clean and wipe you every day. It is probably best that you forget.
Thank you again for your support it will be sent along.
Good bye to a lovely lady.........
Still hanging on but most of the spirit is gone. X
Whatever your religion, faith, belief or motivation it is illness' and afflictions like this which test us to the core.
Im in sympathy for you and this senior lady who means so much to you.
Thanks my friend, always appreciated
Any decease that makes one dependent on another for existence only, (while suffering in pain or not even remembering) and being bed ridden is painful to watch.
Not many family members have the emotional strength to provide the necessary comfort, as is your sister, or Goldfinch.
Thou poetically expressed, it is expressed well
Thank you and your right I sadly fall apart within a day of being around. The strength needed for full-time is admirable
Thank you as always for you visit my friend
Such a moving and touching piece of writing here which you have described incredibly well and to enhance the awareness and issues of such conditions. I wish you and your loved ones all the best for the future and that somehow you learn how to cope. God bless, Poetic Dan.
Thank you my friend, with all this guidance coping with life gets easier.
I hope you are as well as can be my friend?
Bless you, Dan. I'm keeping well with new medicines working their magic, but apart from that life is still grand enough to keep plodding on as we do.
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