Thank you for your kind comments about my friend M. I still feel so grieved for her. Meanwhile I'm trying to seize the day, gathering rosebuds as I do so. And also blog a bit.
If you haven't seen An Engineer's Guide to Cats, you should watch it. Mr Life and I thought we'd got the wee screen on to this post like other, clever people do, but then it vanished. Still, the link should work. It's rather funny.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4
Hi Isabelle, I've just caught up with your recent posts. Any kind of dementia, rare or common, is heart breaking to the people around the victim. In my work with people with advanced dementia, I've found they do have lucid moments, and they do recognise faces when people have visited them regularly. My client is just that - a workplace client, no relation or friend, but she now waves when I walk into the room, and even smiles occasionally. It would be worth your while (and M's) to make a couple of visits if she is close by. You can email me direct if you want to discuss your feelings over this.
ReplyDeleteMe again - just watched that Youtube clip on cats - just the thing to cheer you up!!
ReplyDeleteLoved the clip. Cat yodelling sounds like an activity our house has been waiting for!
ReplyDeleteHaha Isabelle -- thanks for the cat video link. We must know however...have the catlets been exposed to corporal cuddling? Or worse...cat yodelling???
ReplyDeleteI tried the yodelling trick on Babby but all she did was faintly grunt.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend M. Like gina says, it might be good to visit her to see if she does remember you. My mother had Alzheimers and didn't know my Dad, confused my 2 sisters, but always knew me. It's a strange but wicked disease and horrid for the sufferer. It will probably be difficult for you to see M this way, but it just might give her a few moments of pleasure.
ReplyDeleteSecond, even though I'm not a cat "lover" (I don't mind them but I'm more a "dog person), I loved that clip. I found myself laughing out loud.
Hi Isabelle,
ReplyDeleteI saw this clip somewhere else last week - it is very funny.
The Diana thing? Purely a fascination. I was 12 when they married and was completely caught up in the fairytale.