A Caregiver Lesson Well Learned

My mother, Dotty, lived with probable Alzheimer's disease for a long time.

She went to Heaven on May 25, 2012.

Dotty

I continued to be amazed at how much I learned, or maybe I should say how much Dotty 

Dotty loved flowers. She would look at them with fascination. A really, alive, look on her face.

I still remember the look of fascination on her face. Just another good example of how a person living with dementia is capable of more than we can imagine. Just another example of how persons living with dementia are here, they are living, and in the case of the flowers Dotty had a real appreciation of nature.

I would go to the flower store and buy Dotty some beautiful long stem flowers. Come home, snip the ends, put the flower food in the water, and put the flowers in the vases. We usually had two vases full of flowers.

Before I knew it, Dotty would start hacking away at the long stems on the flowers. Within a couple of days, we would go from long stem flowers to two inch stems.

This bugged me.

Continue reading about Dotty and the Flowers

A Caregiver Lesson Well Learned - The Flowers

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