[Magdalen] More with Marcy

[Jo Craddock]

This behavior so reminds me of some exhibited by my mother as her cancer 
metastasized. I found if I could be kindly honest, rather than brutally 
honest, it often helped both of us deal with each particular situation. 
"Wouldn't that be nice? I wish you could do that, too." Of course, I was 
not always up to that, nor was she always open to it. Take a nap, 
yourself, while she naps, if at all possible.

Some of those times are now etched in our household collective memory as 
sweet incidents of the spirit being willing, but the flesh weak. "Yes, 
mother; why don't you cook tonight?" and talking through it with her as 
I prepared dinner, has become a euphemism for someone suggesting a 
project that another has to complete. And, we can smile with the 
remembrance.

With prayer for

Peace,
Jo




On 09/05/2015 8:28 PM, James Handsfield wrote:
> Yes, I have.  The problem is that there really is nothing to gain by a specific diagnosis of dementia as it won’t change the course of Marcy’s disease or the way we deal with it.
>
> This is known as Frustration.
>