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Sunday, July 6, 2025
2 and a half hours...
You don't know the hell I was going through the past 5 days. The one thing I know about this disease, is that sleep helps the mind, and that is the same for all of us!! When the mind is tired, you mess up, and tell me I'm lying! However, the difference between a healthy mind and one with Dementia, is that the person with a healthy mind, will shut it down and get some rest. My mother doesn't recognize that. She doesn't recognize when she is tired to the point of exhaustion.
Today, she napped for 2 1/2 hours and I managed to get 1 1/2 hour nap, the first nap in I don't know when. But the good thing for my mother, she went back to sleep, 4 hours later. My prayer is we continue this for awhile. Have you ever tried to function tired, when you're old? I'm 65 years old, and this is a lot on me. I now have to make sure to exercise my mind in some way.
I know, you probably thinking why I am excited over a nap? If you have never been in my shoes, you wouldn't understand. See, I am a sleeper naturally. I am use to getting up around 9am or 10am. Now I am waking up when my mother start moving around. I'm not going to tell you what time that is. But someone told me they can't understand why I just can't take a nap when I want too. Would you go to sleep on someone who is hallucinating about wanting to go home, or trying to go out the door, because they are seeing someone outside to pick them up, and there's no one there? No, you can't turn your back on a person suffering from dementia.
Right now, I should be asleep, but I just needed to write this. I love my sleep, but I hate what my mother is going through, so I will do what I can, to see that my mother needs are met.
Sleep does a mind good...
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