My Ladybug's Alzheimer's Journey
She Looked Like My Mother But She Did Not Act Like My Mother
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The joys and pains of working with Alzheimer's disease are life changing, and the journey is filled with uncertainties and unexpected rewards. The amazing expeience of watching a person's personality change before your eyes is something to behold. It is as if your loved one has been transformed into someone you do not know. Only God can keep you through the experience. It requires a strength that has often never been tested. The job require love, patience, compassion, understanding and fortitude. Prayer for guidane is a constant companion of the care giver. Taking care of a person with Alzheimer's disease is not for the faint hearted. The most unexpected reward is help from complete strangers, without which I never would have made it.
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My Ladybug’s Alzheimer’s Journey is about the disease that seemed too far removed to imagine it affecting the most important person in my life, my mother. My assumptions changed drastically when Alzheimer took over my mother’s existence in all phases of her life.
My hope for help from the medical profession hit rock bottom when they informed me, “There is no cure for the disease.” It was even more agonizing when I watched my mother mysteriously drifting away from me, disappearing into a world of disorientation and delirium. I became a stranger to my own mother. Near the end, there was a paradoxical shift when I became the mother and my mother became my child.
My Ladybug’s Alzheimer’s Journey chronicles the grueling challenges in the relationship between a mother and daughter that revolved within complex behaviors and grief of losing a living mother to a life destroyed by Alzheimer’s Disease.
Hopefully readers will join the journey where loved ones can walk together and reach a goal of empathy and understanding. Ultimately, the final aim is to help family members find ways of coping with the many faces of this life damaging disease; Alzheimer.
About the Author
R. D. Carter was born in Georgia and moved to Detroit, Michigan with her mother and brothers in 1953. She was caregiver for her mother who struggled with Alzheimer’s disease for twelve years and eleven month and is a graduate of Wayne State University.