"Try to imagine all your favorite people and things gathered together in one beautiful place. Then imagine a bulldozer driving over everything, totally rearranging the landscape. That's what this disease does."
In an old Prevention magazine, this is how an article on Alzheimer's disease begins. What a description! In just those few words, it really does describe what this disease does to your life. The really grumpy and sad part of me wants to make up greeting cards with the first sentence on the front, and the rest of it inside the card—and send it to those people who just don't get it.
Very apt description. I can describe it in fewer words: "Alzheimer’s – were happiness goes to die.”
That popped into my head last week as my DH drew a blank when my teenage son was discussing a significant family event that happened 5 years ago. This was the first time his longer term memory failed him. And like all "firsts" it was a shock, for a moment anyway...
What was really sad was watching my son provide one prompt after another to help his dad remember. Poor DH sat like a deer in the headlights, unable to make any connection.