Stages of Decline Outline: Tenth Installment
All previous stages of decline overlapped gradually with each other, not so with the final stage of emotional decline. In March of 2019 Cindy had her first ever and still most severe seizure. From that moment on her total physical decline was complete and the Trials of her emotional decline began.
- Cindy no longer could stand or sit up.
- Cindy no longer uttered one word responses to the television.
- Cindy no longer stayed alert during our outdoor strolls/jogs.
- Cindy no longer smiled.
Because of the lack of expression and alertness, this final stage of decline is in different aspects both the easiest and hardest for a caregiver. I started Cindy’s hospice care, receiving regular assistance from home health aides, while adopting a constant routine that checked all the other caregiver boxes. Yet the lack of emotion from a once warm and joyful person has been the saddest part of this whole ordeal.
Additional Tribulations accompanied Cindy’s emotional decline in this final stage of dementia. Those will be covered in the next installment.
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Yes…it is me, Kirk.
All I am going to say is….Don’t give up!
The energies that are pouring in from the Sun now are healing energies.
They have been all a long, but they are at their strongest now.
Radiation from the Sun is Love.
I am watching people healing…..if they stay out of fear.
Fear was the problem. You know that.
Love that girl.
Don’t have fear and be her continued support.
No doubting. No fear.
Thinking of you every day.