Still Alice…
I started reading the novel “Still Alice” the other day..but I confess I had to put it away after I got through half the book. It was just too hard to read aout it. I will definitively pick it up again after a while though and finish it, because I found the book itself well written!
Another reason this was hard for me, may be the decline we got from the government about moving my father here. They figured that he`ll be just fine where he is (translation: they don`t want to spend the money) and with the nurses looking after him. They didn`t even mention the fact that all of his relatives live here and that he has noone down there. Just cold and clean – let the nurses take care of him and keep him where he is.
Both me and my brother got so angry, and we have tried the desicion in for a second round. I`m intending to pester them like a mosquito in their bedroom!! But at the same time I can imagine many that don`t have the energy or capability or knowledge to do so. Imagine an elderly man or whoman trying to get their spouse in a home and getting shut down like this. They don`t stand a chance and it shouldn`t be like that! You shouldn`t have to bear the burden of fighting for everything on top of the almost unbearable burden it is to have a loved one with Alzheimer`s!!
