The Truth

Its about a person with Alzheimers

I'm still here but my mind isn't. I'm scared and I feel alone as I carry on in my own world. My world is not the same as yours anymore. I wouldn't expect you to understand something I don't understand myself.  Whats real to me may not be real to you. When your asleep I'm sometimes awake. I try to tell you I love you but cant always put my thoughts into words. I try to make my needs known but sometimes I have to act out.

Please don't ask me to remember because there's a chance I won't. Sometimes I'm afraid because I don't remember stuff and Ill pretend like I do so I don't upset anybody. Please don't be mad or scold me if I don't remember it's not my fault it wasn't a choice for me to be like this. Sometimes when you tell me to do a task in my mind I already did it and I won't do it again. Remember that I'm very sick. I have a different mind set then you.

Sometimes I walk around trying to find you or something I have lost or had along time ago. I sometimes will relive events from the years I wasn't sick good and bad. Please redirect me don't tell me the truth or try to reason with me as I may not understand and get upset. If I'm combative it don't mean I hate you it means I don't understand that your trying to help me often times I'm afraid your going to hurt me and certain things can make me relive a bad event in the past.

I don't deserve to be yelled at. Please don't be mad at me, be patient with me. Please don't be upset if I don't remember you Always remember I still love you even if I may not be able to say it. I still want to be loved, included and accepted even though I'm not who I used to be. I may not be able to tell you but I'm truly afraid I feel alone and like nobody cares about me anymore because sometimes I don't remember that you came to see me today. Don't be mad if I forget just hold my hand and walk me through and Ill get through the day.  This is the truth so please accept me for who I am now and remember who I used to be than.

Reviews

[Samuel Dickens]

Excellent! I think this is a spot-on representation of what it must be like to suffer from that terrible disease. At 70, I'm experiencing enough old age dementia to know how frustrating and frightening it is to lose mental sharpness. (Only a very small taste of what alzheimers must be like) The message this story mainly promotes is understanding, and that is exactly what everyone needs. I used to get angry at my elderly father for some of the things he did, but now I'm becoming him.

[Glittergirl]

Thank you sir so much for my first review for the first thing I posted. Means allot somebody liked what I wrote. This is so new to me. When I was in school I didn't have very good English teachers they were worried about teaching us stuff that didn't matter instead of teaching us punctuations and stuff so I'm not very good at that but I have the creativity I like the feedback thank you so much sir

[Samuel Dickens]

You're doing very well. Better than I did at first. Write some more, please!