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Alzheimer's Caregiver: A Life Changing Experience

The April 27, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum"  is
Tell us about the one experience that has changed your life.

1

Which
life changing experience
do I chose?

I chose care giving
because it is a sea change
in the life
of the caregiver
and the one
needing a caregiver.

2

As Alzheimer's steals
the memory of its victim,
it transforms
the caregiver's life.

It is a long
slow death for the sufferer,
as brain cell by brains cell
memories depart;
wave a long good-bye
as neurons
lose the battle for survival
and the brain
loses control of bodily functions.

Day after day
the caregiver cries,
remembering
the vital person who was
mother,
father,
husband,
wife,
sibling,
etc.

3

I am still
to close to the event
for me to write continually
in the first person;
sometimes the descriptions,
the emotions
must be expressed
in the second
or the third person
because
my mind, my soul, and my body
shed tears
simultaneously.

Thought of the Day: "There are only four kinds of people in the world - those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers." -- Rosalynn Carter