Why she can’t go home

Debdg

My Mom told me this the other day:  “I feel like I haven’t been home in a year. I just want to go where everything is normal and things make sense.”

This is the best definition of HOME I have seen. In fact Mom has been in a SNF for close to a year, but she has wanted to go home for a couple of years now. Home is not back to her house, which in pictures she does not recognize. Home is back to the time when her brain worked better.

I just wanted to share Mom’s insight since I think it is so accurate.

zauberflote

Debdg, yes, your mom hit the nail on the head!

My mom, nearly 92 and stage 6 by my calculations, had a moment of total clarity and told me this, with a hand motion at the back of her head,"there is a black thing in my head[she may have said brain] that is growing larger". Terrifyingly accurate description of Alzheimer's, from someone who never knew she had it. The picture it paints .....

M1

that's incredibly apt Deb.  Thank you for posting it.  Heartbreaking, too.

Mint

So sad for them and us.

jfkoc

Yes and don't we all feel that way at times!

toolbeltexpert

My dw has said multiple times "my brain is dying" made me want to cry.

Jean loves wildlife

Wow. Very poignant. And yes an excellent definition of "home."