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Living With Dementia 10/18/2012 6:08:44 AM
How does one measure success? For some, the need for financial gain outweighs any sense of pride in accomplishment while others discover early on there’s much more to achieving a goal than merely acquiring material wealth. Although padding the coffers is certainly a dream! It’s human nature to want the comforts attainable when a measureable rate of success has been achieved. But oftentimes we lose sight of purpose…
My experience with writing thus far hasn’t provided the means to possess my wildest dreams by any stretch of the imagination, but I have acquired wealth beyond measure because my words have touched human souls!
Now and then I get an email message about something I wrote that means more to me than I can put into words. Recently, a young girl of thirteen in Australia took the time to forward a word of thanks for a poem I wrote a number of years ago that still lives out there in cyberspace. She said the poem offered her great comfort in knowing she wasn’t alone in the terrible journey she’d been forced into with her beloved Nan.
This child and her mother moved in with her Nan a year ago because she has dementia and could no longer care for herself. As an adult having gone through “Living With Dementia” (the title of my poem), I know how very difficult it was to watch my mother-in-law suffer through this horribly debilitating disease for a few years before she passed away. But for a child to watch a beloved grandparent go through this, I can’t imagine how difficult it must be.
