Monday, June 20, 2011

" WALKING THE DOGS-----AT NIGHT!! "

IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN I GOT HOME FROM MY MEETING THURS. NIGHT, TO HEAR MIKE UTTER THESE WORDS - "I JUST GOT HOME FROM WALKING THE DOGS"!!  I WAS VERY UPSET BY THAT REMARK, BUT TRIED TO STAY COMPOSED AS I SAID TO HIM " HONEY IT IS DARK OUT SIDE, YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN LOST".  HIS REPLY?  "WELL I DIDN'T".  SO IN MIKES MIND ALL WAS WELL.  IN MY MIND, NOW I AM AFRAID TO LEAVE HIM ALONE AT ANY TIME.  I WAS IMAGINING WHAT WOULD/COULD HAVE HAPPENED.  NIGHT TIME IS ALWAYS WORSE FOR MIKE AND OTHERS WITH ALZHEIMER'S.  MIKE HAS GOTTEN LOST IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE DAY TIME BEFORE, SO THIS WAS VERY TROUBLING NEWS FOR ME.  I'M REALLY BEGINNING TO SEE ALL THE SIMILARITIES WITH PEOPLE WITH ALZHEIMER'S AND CHILDREN NOW.  CHILDREN DO THINGS THAT GET THEM HURT ALL THE TIME, AND YOU CAN EVEN BE RIGHT IN THE SAME ROOM JUST INCHES AWAY, AND YET YOU CAN NOT ACT FAST ENOUGH TO PREVENT WHAT YOU KNOW IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.  IT IS THE SAME WITH PEOPLE WITH ALZHEIMER'S.  THE DIFFERENCE??  YOU CAN REASON WITH A CHILD AND EXPLAIN WHY THIS OR THAT WAS A BAD.IDEA-AND WHEN YOU TELL THEM TO BE MORE CAREFUL NEXT TIME, CHANCES ARE THEY WILL LISTEN.  WITH MIKE AND OTHERS WITH ALZHEIMER'S, THEY WILL AGREE WITH YOU AT THE MOMENT YOU EXPLAIN ALL THE DANGERS OF WHAT THEY JUST DID, BUT THE CHANCES ARE GREAT, THAT THEY WILL DO THE SAME THING AGAIN!!  THEY DO NOT HAVE THE MEMORY OF A YOUNG CHILD, AND EVEN IF WHAT THEY DID GOT THEM HURT, THEY WILL HAVE NO MEMORY AND HENCE, NO FEAR OF DOING THE SAME THING AGAIN. ALL I KNOW IS THAT IN DEALING WITH SOMEONE WITH THIS DISEASE, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY HAVE TO WORK ON ALL OF THE FRUITAGES OF THE SPIRIT-ESPECIALLY MILDNESS AND SELF CONTROL, AS IT IS SO EASY TO OVER REACT IN MANY OF THE SITUATIONS YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF IN.  OK, I THINK I HAVE VENTED ENOUGH FOR TODAY, AS I SEEM CALMER NOW.  THANKS FOR LISTENING-TILL TOMORROW-JUST ME

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