I'm reading Tuesday's again on my Kindle. I didn't know that you could highlight and make notes in books on Kindle until today so I'm highlighting the things I find important (and there are a lot of them) and making notes and bookmarks. I'll have to learn later how to retrieve the bookmarks and notes but for now I'm just feverishly making highlights and notes. This book is so important. There are so many lessons to learn. How do we live? What makes our lives important? Why should we be afraid of death? How do we respond to death? So many questions, and Morrie has so many answers.
Right now, mom and dad are dying. They don't look like they are dying (but really, we are all dying). Mom is sitting at the breakfast table, steadily talking to no one. Dad is sleeping in his chair. We became worried about dad's increasing anxious behavior and the hospice nurse had the doctor prescribe Seroquel to calm him down. He had his first dose today and it has just knocked him out. I'm hoping that he will become more accustomed to it and will eventually be able to take it and still function, albeit with less bizarre behavior.
I watched a slide presentation on the internet today about the effects of Alzheimer's on the brain. I had no idea how devastating this disease was to the health of the brain. The Alzheimer's patient's brain literally shrivels up over time. This is caused by the death of the nerve cells in the brain; those nerve cells that transmit information to the body. It's really scary.
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