poem/song lyrics about dementia

[Tucker08087]

11. I understand

We need to talk about certain things more openly and this is one of them. There are treatments now. Some are really promising, too. I got my mom on one but she refuses to take it. I wish I had known before she reached this point, and not even her doctor said a word until I cried out, “This is happening so fast! Is there nothing that can be done?” You would think he would have told me. This is uncharted territory for me. Now they say I should be in a caregivers’ group therapy but had no answers to who will sit with my mom when I’m at group. And will my absence make her even more fearful for those hours, because the fear lasts for quite some time. Why break someone knowing you will need to glue her back together? We need one another yet we are alone with a shell of someone we love.
I feel you! ❤️