Kirkkitsch’s Blog

Well, I went to visit my mom at the rest home. Apparently she has to be there for 30 days, then be evaluated and see if she qualifies as a “hardship case” so that she can be put in an actual facility that specializes in Alzheimer’s patients. After seeing her yesterday, I don’t know if she’s going to last the 30 days.

Even though my dad had tried to prepare me for what I was going to see, I wasn’t. At all. When we first went to her room, I initially thought maybe she was elsewhere, because the woman in the bed wasn’t my mother. But it was. She was this shriveled, gray-haired woman, sleeping with her mouth open, with an oxygen tube coming from her nose.
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