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wingHotRodPizzaCowing

From Riverside, California USA
Age 65
Joined Sunday, February 12, 2006
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Descent into darkness

I am overwhelmed by the kindness of Bookcrossers, especially the Portland group.

They say that the active mind can ward off Alzheimer's. That's not quite true. The active mind is simply more adept at shifting the load around - when one part of the brain becomes impaired, the thinkers and the readers and the puzzle solvers scurry to another corner of the mind and carry on.

When the tangles and the plaques finally leave that mind with nowhere to go, the decline is swift and furious. There is no escape.

My father is the most intelligent, logical and curious person I have ever known. He is also a victim of dementia. He may well be lost to me in a matter of months, although his body might live for many years.

Please, please, please forgive me for not responding to your many kindnesses. I do not know how long I have, before my father is no more. So I will play chess with him to all hours, and we'll sit on the patio swing and talk about how big the trees have grown, and he won't remember my name - but that's ok.

Because I will know that his mind only retreated when there were no other options, and the last bastion, the last sanctuary was .. a board game with me.

But there was no escape.

We have to stop this, before it is all of us.

kindest regards


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