Every once in a while a photo surfaces that makes one wonder....this is one!
Since the topic here is "Do You Believe".....I don't think I'm off-topic to tell what happened to me a couple months ago.
My Mom is in the last stages of Alzhiemers. The last several years have been quite challenging! Such an interesting disease this is!! That little lady who sits with a perpetual smile on her lips.....and sometimes communicates in little "tsk, tsk, tsk" or "do-do-do" sounds is VERY different than the person who raised 6 kids! I work with many "Special Needs" students yearly, and have been successful in "going into her world" as I often do with students. Simply said....I observe things much differently than my siblings....and I can often get her to talk with me in understandable words. Music, singing, and talking about childhood memories seem to easily "bring her back" for me.
She has not recognized me as her daughter for 2 years now. She knows I'm there to visit her, but always has to ask me who I am. Her sister died a year ago....and recently Mom has been calling me by her name.....Maxine. I was very close to this aunt. A while back when she called me Maxine, I carefully told her that she had died......."Well, she's standing right there behind you!" Mom quickly said....."There's a whole bunch of people there"!
I felt no fear...almost a comfort at her words....and on my hour drive home thought about mentioning to my family over a year ago that Moms eyes always seemed to be looking over my shoulder....and she would look at the ceiling as if there was something there to be seen!
She mentions this to me every week now......but says nothing at all like this to her other children.....(Ha! I say "children.....but we range in age from 44 to 61!)
They say children often mention "seeing" things we don't......I wonder if that simplistic outlook a child has comes back to a dying person.............p
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