Joy
My Alzheimer’s Patient
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What am I going to do? I don’t want to be here. I feel sick inside. I am so unfulfilled. It is almost like a depression. Somebody help me! All those thoughts and feelings are swirling through my head and mind. My legs are week and my fingers do not care to move. I sit down, close my eyes and start to breathe deeply. What have I learned all those years to come to such a low point in my life? “Meditate,” a bell is ringing from deep within, but loud enough to get my attention. Ah yes. ‘Have you forgotten to still your mind and breathe deeply,’ the little voice reminds me? I feel better immediately. Time to ask for more direction and guidance. ‘What am I to do with a job that pays well and gives me nothing?’ I feel robbed and depleted of all my good energy. Answer number ONE ‘Be the best you can be.’ There it is. If I make the decision to stay on, I have to give the best of me at all times. Clarity. The answer did not hit me like a lightning bolt, but rather folded over and around me like a preheated blanket. Warmth. I get it. Yes, yes, and yes again. I have to demonstrate the best of me. Why else would one perform a duty any other way? More Meditation and more questions. Answer number TWO: “Journal,” just like that. Journaling does not agree with me. Not that I don’t realize the energy and power through the act of writing down what is in my head — it is just not my genre. Final answer. “Journal,” this little, ever so persistent voice insists and reminds me daily, hourly — no, constantly. The minute I give my internal dialogue a break, “Journal” pops up without interruption. “But why should I journal and write down those boring hours of my work, especially when I don’t find fulfillment in what I do?” All right, I give up. I am going to do it. I will start journaling. A few weeks go by since my first encounter with this voice from within. From now on I place every action I perform in the highest regard. I immediately elevate myself onto a higher pedestal and feel grand. Making a decision to better my actions, and therefore my life, almost gives me a jolt. Yes, that is the way life needs to be lived anyway — onward to a fabulous day.
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Alzheimers, now what? Joy, a beautiful and rather affluent lady of eighty years is diagnosed with the Alzheimer’s Decease. Driving her automobile, no longer being an option, forces the family to find the right help for her condition. Joy is used to getting her way no matter what, which labels her as difficult, demanding, often by screaming, and at times even physical. Care givers come and go. Loving a challenge and knowing the family, the position was offered and I accepted. Bless this woman, having to deal with her condition and depression, confusion and anger, by not being able to live her glamorous life as usual. Joy is a member of several country clubs and exudes in being recognized and waited on. She is in her element until this also fades away. Falls, broken bones, wheelchairs and walkers are taking their turn with visits to doctors and hospitals. Tough as she is, Joy is surviving it all. Not being able to recall her memories and friends, Joy emerges as a gracious, kind and caring, elderly and beautiful Lady.
About the Author
Brigitta was born and raised in Germany. She started her career in Europe in the field of hospitality to be able to move to the USA and travel the world. Her love is the ocean, where she resides in Southern California with her husband and family. Always looking for a personal challenge, acquiring patience was moved to the forefront. This way of thinking brought her to the steps of caring for an Alzheimer’s Patient. Brigitta is a mentor and motivator. Throughout her life of learning and im-proving her self with the metaphysical wisdom and philosophy of Dr Ernest Holmes and Science of Mind, she has realized that we are here on this planet earth to live, be in joy, become aware and share our wisdom, which reflects in her newest book ‘WAKE UP.’ ‘Action’ is her flower of wisdom, and it is that course she has taken to help and enrich humanity and herself.