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What does it feel like to have Alzheimer’s?
Alice, what it tells me is that you fit the criteria of having probable Alzheimer’s disease.”
The fact that she had Alzheimer’s didn’t mean that she no longer deserved to be heard.
Her thoughts and opinions carried weight. At least, they used to.
Her sense of Alice—what she knew and understood, what she liked and disliked, how she felt and perceived—was also like a soap bubble, ever higher in the sky and more difficult to identify, with nothing but the thinnest lipid membrane protecting it from popping into thinner air.
This is now who I am, someone with dementia.
