I am frequently amazed by the kind souls that offer responses to my humble little blog posts. Your responses to my last, very personal, post were, in a word, overwhelming.
Thank you for your sensitivity to my father’s struggle. Thank you for your tender hearts. Thank you for your prayers, your friendship, and your willingness to stand with me in the Alzheimer’s journey. I have wept with tears of joy more than once as I have read and re-read your gracious words.
Interestingly, Tara and I have been watching “The Alzheimer’s Project” on HBO this week. It is a multi-segment documentary designed to illuminate some of the “faces behind the disease and the forces leading us to find a cure.” If you have a chance to see this documentary at some point, I encourage you to do so. It is a heartbreaking, heartwarming, and, ultimately, hopeful production, created with great attentiveness and sensitivity, that sheds important light on the Alzheimer’s journey in which millions of families currently find themselves. It is well-worth your time.
Again, thank you for ministering to my soul, even in the “temple” of blog.
God bless you.
On a lighter note, stay tuned for my reflections on the new “Star Trek” film! I will offer them as soon as we repair the matter/anti-matter reactor and replenish our supply of dilithium crystals!!!
hey there eric,
having worked for many years with people in your dad’s condition and families in the place where you are, it puts a smile on my heart to think of you in his room singing with him and allowing him to be in the place where this wretched disease has him. many a time i have heard families trying to argue with their family member to get them back to “reality” and hear their frustration and escalation. it has been my place to educate them to do the things you do with your dad.
thank you, on behalf of your dad, for allowing him to be…for meeting him where he is…for loving him although his words to you may not convey the depths of his love right now.
i love that he made music with you, keep that up. its important!!!