Our family is once again hit with dementia lurking, as my mother-in-law is exhibiting signs more and more.
In her though, I have to hope it was an onset with her welcoming and God allowing it to come, as she dealt with a man full of control and emotional along with verbal abuse, for years. This protected her.
This sweet lady endured so much while we had to keep our distance from the same man. While he exhibited issues, something clicked in 2018 and made it worse. They both aged twenty years, as I compared photos within a fourteen-month span. Still, we had to hold our distance, making minimal visits to observe, with excuses to get in the door.
Now, speed forward, he passed away this year and that in itself was a horrid situation. How terrible to say, but a relief although so sad.
While she is in our care now, she has improved so much, those twenty years after helping her in hygienic ways, she looks younger and happier. Memory of him is long gone, for the better.
How long we get to enjoy this sweet lady is unknown but she will never be abused. Hopefully, her dementia will not worsen but usually it does. We will cross that bridge as it comes.
I ordered a book called, A 36-Hour Day. The reviews have been great from others in this role. Some advice we are already doing, not knowing, which gives me hope that we have been doing the right things to help her.
We are learning as we go. Slow but steady steps. We have crossed big hurdles until the next one to get here where we are today. Now we are smooth sailing and making great strides.
Thankful that we have the means of doing what we are accomplishing and hope and pray to continue.
Everything that happened during the COVID19, was not all bad. It allows her son to work from home still, caring for her in her own home and surroundings.
I have the best mother-in-law. She has the best daughter-in-law. That’s what I tell her and we both laugh. I’m the only daughter-in-law. Truth!
Blessed.
Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.”
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