Alzheimer's- A Touching Moment

Dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer's over 10 years ago and as might be expected, the disease has continued to progressively take it's toll. Though he has been pretty jovial lately, in the last couple of years he had increasingly been unable to say much of anything that makes sense. He is often not able to put any kind of a sentence together. One of the hardest things has been to see Mom talk to him and him not be able to respond. Well, she was able to go the Billy's to get her hair done on Thursday and I went to pick her up and take her back to Cherry Hill. She was looking specially nice and wanted to see Dad when we got back. One of the aids was walking him to the table for lunch and Mom went over to him. He looked at her and the biggest smile came over his face you have ever seen, as if he had seen a long lost friend for the first time in a long time. She said, "Wayne, I love you." With his fullest voice, his response was certainly unexpected, "I love you too, and I always have." That teary eyed moment will live in my mind for a very long time.