Yesterday I posted a short essay entitled ‘Missing Pieces.’ (Read Here: http://dorsetladyuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/missing-pieces.html )
My e-mail has been fairly crowded
with comments, some of them were non-too polite, but most were along the lines
of the essay being ‘dis-jointed,’ ‘lacking the usual flow,’ ‘lacking any definitive
ending, ’having but three scenes with no connecting story line.’
That’s right readers, all is
true, and now you get it, that is what having Alzheimer’s is like, and how I
tried to portray it. Alzheimer’s has no ‘dots’
to join together, there is no flow in
day to day occurrences, life is dis-jointed and bears no relation to what has
happened in the past to what is happening in the present. Time is lived in
blocks, without connection. Eventually
even the blocks begin to wear away, the pieces of the jig-saw puzzle of your
mind are lost, gone, no more.
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