“Nobody warned me about this part. When I envisioned my trip, I imagined exciting adventures, exotic locales, a jet-set lifestyle. I never thought grief and doubt would climb into my backpack and come with me. I pictured standing at the top of the Sun Gate, looking down at Machu Picchu, without ever thinking about the steps it would take to get there. This is the curse of wanderlust, when the postcard image becomes a brutal reality.”
Source: Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime
“Je ne te l’ai jamais dit, mais j’ai cru pendant des années que si l’un de nous deux devait perdre la tête, ce serait moi. La tienne était beaucoup trop précieuse, beaucoup trop acclamée pour que je puisse m’imaginer qu’elle s’égare, mais j’avais oublié que les choses précieuses sont souvent les plus fragiles.”
Source: Les écrivements
“Remember that not all people are diagnosed at an early stage. Decision making already may be different when Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed-WHY YOU MUST URGENTLY PREPARE FOR THE FINANCIAL AND LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE BARNES ANDNOBLE NOOK BOOK”
Source: YUM YUM CROCKPOT RECIPES
“Yeah, they kinda swim around all pointlessly, doncha think?” Edna winced, squinting. Over and over again, in the same li’l old place. It’s madness. Glad I’m not a fish.”
Source: Pale Highway
“He placed a cigarette in his mouth and sat down at his regular spot over in the white gazebo, where all the smokers were supposed to do their dirty business. He patted his pockets, searching for a lighter. Nothing. He’d forgotten to bring it.
But it wasn’t his fault. He was expected to forget everything because he was the lucky recipient of life’s final going-away present, that red velvet, chocolate-covered cake of wonderfulness that the doctors liked to call Alzheimer’s. With Alzheimer’s, suddenly nothing was his fault anymore. No fault. No blame. No choice. No freedom.”
Source: Pale Highway
“When I got home, I told Steve about the meeting and asked him if he minded me being so vocal. His response was, “NO, I want to stay alive, too.”
Source: Dealing with Early-Onset Alzheimer's: Love, Laughter & Tears
“I thought I understood what's happening to me, but this isn't like being robbed a penny at a time I knew that something was wrong and I don’t like being like this.”
“Diseases which are often associated with ageing, like alzheimers, strokes, cancers etc, are not natural consequences of ageing, they are self inflicted!”
Source: Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy
“It's one thing to be buried, but another thing entirely to be buried alive.”
Source: Home in a Hundred Places
“His was a slow leaving. He had resisted it. In his letter were parts I had never seen of the smiling, quiet man who had made spaghetti or folded dumplings, who had danced giddy with me in stacked shoes at holiday parties. They were parts left in Taiwan, pieces he shared with no one, things he had lost in China. They belonged to those places, and the person he had been when all of him was there.”
Source: Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past