This blog is about life with my husband who was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's and Frontal Lobe Dementia in 2008. He was 64 at the time although now, knowing more about the disease, Alzheimer's was present many, many years ago, which is why early detection is so important. As you read the blog the character "Al" that I created in 2008, represents the way that Alzheimer's is invading our daily lives.
There is an archive tab further down the page that starts from the beginning of our journey.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Living with Bob and "Al"

Sheri worries about everything. The frozen tundra, driving on the frozen tundra, money, the car, the heater in the car, the heat in the house, Bob , "Al", her kids, her parents, her job, you name it and Sheri can find a reason to worry about it. It is not that she doesn't know that she has absolutely no control over these things and that she should pause, praise and pray, because she does do these things. Sheri does not even have a "she think's it is because" insight for this one.

Matthew 6:25-34
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life ?  "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?  So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'  For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.



1 comment:

  1. Jim Devore, Bob's high school friend.November 13, 2014 at 4:09 PM

    In 1998, about a month before my mother died, we were visiting with her in a nursing facility near our home town in PA, we live in NC. My mother had been the home for about a year at that point. It was a very new place, very well appointed and well staffed. During our visit my mother, always the worrier about everything, all the time, said, "I didn't want to come here but the past year has been the best I've had in the last 10 years because I didn't have to worry about anything, food, clothes, the furnace, the water heater, the taxes, the mail, my medicine, nothing." Her Parkinson's caused some dementia but most of the time her worries kept her focused. Worry can be a good thing. It keeps your mind occupied.

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