Category Archives: the Process of Aging
The Kind of Person that the Green-Headed Fly Liked
What this man understood, from twenty plus years of marriage to his wife, translated… “Don’t you know, that my birthday is the same day every year?” Recalling how one year I’d accidentally arranged my overseas trip around my youngest son’s … Continue reading
Hiring a Household Maid, Making Us Get Along Better
We can all use a little extra help ’round the house, isn’t that right??? Translated… The only time of rest that regular workers get are on the weekends, my husband is one of those; I work case by case, as a … Continue reading
Her Silent Protests
This is the only way she has, of protesting, as she’d, lost her ability to speak!!! Her silent protests, they seemed to be more and more frequent now these days, compared to before, and it’s not like, we weren’t, trying, … Continue reading
Posted in Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Experiences of Life, Loss, Ranting About Life, the Consequences of Life, the Process of Aging, The Trials of Life
Tagged Losing Her Means to Communicate with the Outside World, Observations, Psychology of Older Adults, Things She'd Lost...
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I Went to Visit Your Mother Today…
I went to visit your mother today, and, she’d, deteriorated even more than the last time I saw her! She’s now, immobilized, she’d forgotten, how to use her leg muscles, and there’s just, this LACK of muscle tone in her … Continue reading
Finding it Hard, to Express Myself…
What the demented elderly experiences, with the loss of more than just, their cognitive abilities… I’m, finding it hard, to express myself, to make my thoughts materialize, to get what I think, into words. I don’t know why, my thought … Continue reading
An Elderly Woman Who’s Not the Least Bit Anxious about Growing Older
Embracing old age, that’s, the way to do it all right!!! Translated… My aunt is eighty-six, she’d laughed every single day, and naturally as you can imagine, she’s in, great health, but what awes me the most is, the attitude … Continue reading
The Ninety-Year-Old Elderly Man Took Care of His Elderly Ninety-Year-Old Wife…the Percentage of Elderly Taking Care of Demented Elderly is Close to Fifty-Percent
This is slowly become the trend here, as people are living longer, and more elderly are becoming, incapacitated, from the Newspapers, translated… Moving his dearly beloved wife from the wheelchair to the bathrooms, is the hardest thing that the ninety-year-old … Continue reading
That Untouched Place in Her Memories…
She’d become, more, and more forgetful by the day, but there was, that untouched place in her memories, when she was, back in her younger years, still a child, of five, or six, her dad had, bounced her on his … Continue reading
Life, the Obstacle Course 