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There are the patients who are fully functional physically, but Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia has taken their minds, minds once so vibrant and creative, inventive and inspiring, now lost to scattered thought, atrophied by brain wasting, from a disease that by far and away out-competes anything else they might have wrong with them.  This disease steals their memories of loved ones, of days gone by, of tender moments, and in its place leaves anger and rage, combativeness and sometimes a broken record; making them repeat the same thing over and over and over again.  As time passes it narrows the span of the repeated topic from a story they would repeat again and again, to just a phrase that their mind reruns and reruns, and as the gap of thought process closes it is then just a word.  Just one word they repeat.  In a word, they are the mentally dead.
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The following is a brief snippet of a boomer facing the death of her father.
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I can’t resist showing each hospice worker who they are caring for; the young couple in their 20s, so in love, so full of life.  The pictures look like two movie stars.  Everyone says so.  They can’t believe the pictures are of my parents.  Every time we have had to put Dad in a nursing home I’ve taken the pictures to show the nurses, the caregivers, the janitors, the administrators, anyone who will look, for whom they are really caring.  The elderly man with contracted legs and hands gnarled with arthritis lying in their bed, so often is treated as just a living bag of temperamental bones.   They have too many patients in the same condition, with a twist here and there.  Some are bed bound Christmas trees; ornaments adorn their bodies in the form of tubes and bags, IVs and bandages, still alive because of their decorative affair, but abandoned in a nursing home by family too overwhelmed to care for their beloved parent who would require more care and attention than they could give. 

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