Ppl are always like “whats yr 5 year plan,” or “u need to plan for retirment.” No ones ever like “whats yr plan for when yr literally covered in yr own shit cuz yr dementia has made you lose control of your bodily functions” cuz haha our entire culture is built on denial of this
Read your whole thread. My Gramma died of Alzheimer's. It's really hard. Sending you good thoughts.
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I thought of this tonight...I don't think of it often but it's a persistent memory: me in class. I'm 16. Talking to my friends about how we're going to blink and then be old, then dead. How short life is. It scared me even then how short and brutal and beautiful life is.
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This is making me remember all kinds of things. My Gramma was very modest. Then Alzheimer's. In the nursing home, I helped her use the bathroom several times, wiped her butt when she forgot to wipe. She did the same for me when I was a baby. Least I could do.
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