Alzheimer’s Disease

I have decided to change the color of the font I use, in an effort to make it easier to read.
This is Barbara Jean.  I feel sad right now.  Lola pointed out a news article about Alzheimer’s which said that there is an ingredient in green tea that may help fight it.  This led me to e-mail three stories to Mama.  Then I started thinking of how Alzheimer’s is claiming my two remaining grandparents.  It already got Grandpa.  Papaw apparently died of something natural.  And now, my grandmothers are struggling.

When we were in Corsicana this past time, Memaw said that she couldn’t remember someone, and I knew she was saddened by her inability to remember.  This was, after all, a PERSON she could not remember, not a date or an event.  I reminded her and it sprung into her mind, but both of us knew it might not stay there.

Sometimes, aging can be a curse.  I hate to see what is happening to my grandmothers.  I pray that Mama never has to face this.  Memaw was always a nice, gentle woman, and it pains me so to see this loving lady go through such heartache because nature inflicted a disease upon her.
And Nanny – fierce, proud Nanny.  Not so sure of herself anymore, in some ways.  It hurts so much to see.

With Grandpa, Nanny’s husband, it went really fast.  He had early-onset Alzheimer’s, and it was quite vicious.  At least my grandmothers got it almost 20 years later than he did, and there is a good chance they will die before their disease progresses to where Grandpa’s was when he died.

I would like to ask God, "Why Memaw?"  I know that ours is not to question why, though.  Ours is to accept what God gives.  God makes no mistakes, but His will can be so painful sometimes.

Thank you for sharing in our life,

Barbara Jean