Share Your Story – It’s Not That I’m Not Grateful

It’s not that I’m not grateful
 
By Jon Bruton
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk
I feel waves are breaking on a distant shore.
I hear the echoes of a time that went before.
It seems as though the wind has changed, clouds cover the sun.
It seems that as the daylight fades my walk is almost done.
Places once familiar are now unkindly strange.
Signs are playing [...]

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Share Your Story – Alzheimer’s Prayer

ALZHEIMER’S PRAYER 

By Suzanne Rouke
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk
 
Please grant my visitors tolerance for my confusion,
Forgiveness for my irrationality and the strength to walk with me into the mist of memory, my world has become.
Please help them take my hand and stay awhile,
Even though I seem unaware of their presence.Help them to know how their strength and loving care [...]

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Share Your Story – The Alzheimer’s Patient

Alzheimer’s Patient
By Valerie Bellefleur
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk

The Alzheimer’s Patient

She sat near the window in her new wheel chair,
In red robe and slippers and soft greying hair,
She heard someone calling a voice in her head,
It must be my husband at work in his shed.
Bob, is that you? Quick bring the car,
I seemed to have walked just a little too far,
I must [...]

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Do What You’ve To Do

Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do.
By Martina Navratilova

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