" BLACK COFFEE "

WHAT A SHOCK TO LOOK AT MIKE'S CUP OF COFFEE THIS AM AND FIND THAT HE IS DRINKING IT BLACK.  HE HAS NEVER IN THE PAST DRANK BLACK COFFEE, AS HE HAS ALWAYS LIKED IT WITH CREAM.  HOW DOES A PERSON FORGET HOW THEY LIKE THEIR COFFEE??  IT IS JUST ONE MORE OF THE MANY MYSTERIES OF THIS RELENTLESS DISEASE OF ALZHEIMER'S.  TODAY MIKE HAS AN APPOINTMENT WITH A ORTHOPEDIC SPECIALIST FOR HIS KNEE.  I AM HOPING AND PRAYING THAT HE WILL NOT REQUIRE SURGERY, ALTHOUGH, THAT IS WHAT HIS PCP IS LEANING TOWARDS.  ANESTHESIA IS VERY HARD ON PEOPLE WHO SUFFER WITH ALZHEIMER'S.  IT REALLY MESSES WITH WHAT MEMORY THEY HAVE LEFT, AND CAN EVEN WORSEN THEIR CONDITION.  THE GOOD THING ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT SURGERIES THAT MIKE HAS HAD IN THE PAST THREE YEARS (HE HAD HIS BLADDER REMOVED BECAUSE HE HAD TWO TYPES OF CANCER-HAD SURGERY ON HIS SHOULDER FOR A TORN ROTATOR CUFF-AND HE HAS HAD TWO SURGERIES ON HIS NOSE FOR SKIN CANCER!!) IS THAT HE DOES NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THEM.  I GUESS THAT IS ONE OF THE FEW PERKS OF THIS TERRIBLE DISEASE-THE PERSON NOT ONLY FORGETS THE "GOOD MEMORIES", BUT ALSO THE PAINFUL ONES!!  WELL, TIME FOR ME TO TAKE HIM FOR HIS APT., SO TILL TOMORROW-WISHING YOU A DAY OF WELLNESS!! JUST ME