Nursing Home

Yesterday Nancy and I went to see her mother in the nursing home. She was sleeping. Nancy held her hand and told her how much she loved her. We were encouraged to hear that she ate, because she hadn't been. Alzheimer's is such an evil disease. It kills the person but leaves their body alive to suffer.

While we were there we heard an elderly woman down the hall yelling, "Mother... help...Mama...help..." That broke our hearts. She will do that for hours every day. That woman has regressed to a little girl. She misses her mommy. She doesn't understand why she is in this strange place or why her mom won't come and get her.

We are at that stage in life where we are trying to care for our parents and our kids. It can be very stressful at times.