a friend from my platoon commander days shared this with me recently during a dinner. i totally agree with him. he said:
"when i get frustrated with my mother, who now suffers from late stage dementia, i remind myself that that is how she is trying to make use of her last stage in life to teach me her final and perhaps most important life's lesson - patience and compassionate love."
his mother is now no different from a vegetable person. she is almost non-responsive totally and she is sustained via tube feeding through her nose.
his advice had been a source of strength to me and a good reminder that what i am experiencing is also being experienced by others, and that there are resources out there that i can fall back to should i need help.
:-)
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