To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.
Tia WalkerTag: self-care alzheimer-s dementia alzheimer caring-for-others alzheimers caregiving caregiver quotes-of-life aging-parents elder-care caregiving-quotes caregiving-motivational-quotes
Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.
Tia WalkerTag: quotes caring self-care alzheimer-s dementia alzheimer alzheimers alzheimer-s-disease caregiving caregiver aging-parents elder-care selfcare quotes-and-sayings caregiving-quotes
My short-term factual memory can be like water; events are a brief disturbance on the surface and then it closes back up again, as if nothing ever touched it. But it’s a strange fact that my long-term memory remains strong, perhaps because it recorded events when my mind was unaffected. My emotional memory is intact too, perhaps because feelings are recorded and stored in a different place than facts. The things that happened deeper in the past, and deeper in the breast, are still there for me, under the water.
I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
'Pat should get a tattoo!' The kids laughed. 'What kind should she get?'
'A heart. She should get a heart.'
Little did they know. They are the tattoos.
Tag: memory memory-loss alzheimers
Someday, I suppose I’ll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I’ll probably be rocking fast, because I don’t know what I’ll do without a job.
Pat SummittTag: work aging work-ethic dementia alzheimers
God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
Pat SummittTag: loss faith alzheimers diminishment
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