Alzheimers

[OneGrassRoot]

Hi Everyone. I'm in a very quiet, albeit busy place, and feel a need to cocoon a bit with all the intensity of late. Maybe it's the green haze of pollen that has overtaken the Southeast...my mind does indeed feel in a haze. LOL

I'm not really big into channelings, but I am indeed open. I am, if nothing else, open. :)

Regardless of how the following is read and interpreted, since I am living this with my grandmother, it comforted me and allowed me to be open to seeing this process in a new way, and I thought perhaps it would do the same for others. Can you believe my grandmother has been a bridge this long?! The medical staff still doesn't understand why she is still physically alive, and with a fairly strong pulse!

I send you all huge hugsssss :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:


A Beautiful Channeling on Alzheimer's

This month's channeling is from a mother to her daughter giving her a
whole new perspective on her living with the disease. It is a comfort
and a must read for anyone who is dealing with this condition in any
form.

http://www.dyingtoliveagain.com/channelings.htm

"....Let me tell you that sometimes there are parts of your life that you
live on the earth where your intention is not to do anything. Really
and truly. Sometimes you are just fine with a turn of events that
says, “You can stop thinking. You can stop moving. You can stop making
anything have to happen according to the rules that you’ve been living
by.” So there was great value in me just laying there. I want you to
see this because I want you to let go of this part of me, this part of
my life - the part of your mother who existed in such a way that
seemed so tragic and do difficult and depressing. I want you to see me
differently. To realize that there was great value in the learning
that I was having and there was a great sense of peace at being able
to end up back in that body. Yes, to your eyes and to everybody
else’s, it was seeming like I was just laying there but I really
wasn’t. I was just in a place of repose, a place of surrender, and
then I’d take off again. Off I’d be – out there traversing in ways
that you have no idea and then would bring me such a sense of joy and
fulfillment and, yes, inspiration. Then back into the body that was
still, that was not doing anything, that was not moving in the usual
way the human does."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Thanks for this perspective

I believe it was in the Adventures of Oversoul Seven by Jane Roberts that she sort of touched on this sort of thing. though her character was in a more lucid state. She talked of "taking off" into other realms, if memory serves, a sort of realization of what the soul can do--and then the character would come back to her body, rather amazed at it all.

[OneGrassRoot]

4. I swear, Ayesha, you seem to have an astonishingly acute memory....

Can you send me some of whatever you're taking that works so well. ;)

This is an interesting perspective...very helpful to me personally right now.

:hug:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. I'm glad it was helpful

As for helping with memory, I know Doc told someone on Friday they needed Juvenon and tumeric, and something else--but I can't remember! :)

[JanusAscending]

2. Bless you for this!!

As the daughter of a departed soul who went through this, it helps my heart so much!! She lingered for so, so long, and I could never understand it! Eleven long years, and in the end I often wondered "where" she was. That last couple of years I never knew if she even realized I WAS THERE for her. I had lost my Mommy to this dread disease already, and thought I was going to handle her passing with ease. NOT SO!! I was devastated as much as if she'd never been sick a day in her life!
I'm beginning to understand a little of what she may have gone through, as I find myself sitting and staring at the TV, while me and my mind are off to long past times and memories, and places.
Especially in the AM while I'm still waking from the haze of sleep, and having my first cup of coffee. Don't laugh, but I've taken some pretty long "mind trips" while sitting on the "throne" in the AM!!!:hurts: :rofl: :rofl:
Just before she had to go to live in a Nursing home, she used to "sundown" every evening, and go on a crying jag. She cried for her Mom and Dad, and wanted to go home.(she was at home) God bless my Mama, she's home now. I will never stop missing her.
Love ya, JA

[OneGrassRoot]

5. Oh goodness, I've heard that "sundowning" phenomenon.....

can be so very, very trying on loved ones.

Janus, I am so very sorry to hear you went through such a long, difficult time with this process affecting your Dear Mom. Makes me cry reading your words...but then you gave me a chuckle about the throne room "zoning out." I hear ya. ;)

No, you'll never stop missing her. I hope you feel her every so often giving you angel hugs.


:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: O8)

[BuelahWitch]

3. I often wondered if my mother's dementia wasn't some sort of "escape"

An unconscious one, but an escape none the less. She often spoke to imaginary people during her "sundowning." Once when I told her it was time to go to bed, she'd say, "But what about them? What will they do when I go to bed?" I told her "they" were leaving soon too, so she went and told the empty chair goodbye, she was going to bed and walked down the hall to her bedroom...

[OneGrassRoot]

6. Oh wow, and you mention sundowning, too.....

I haven't heard that term in years, and now here it is twice...hmmmm.....

This process is so hard on the family -- devastating, really. Since both of my grandmothers have had Alzheimer's, my daughter (16) is TERRIFIED I'll develop this. She sees how heartbreaking it is.

Did anyone see the movie "The Notebook"?

Oh geez....that just breaks my heart every time I watch it.....*sighs*

Hugs to you, BuelahWitch...:hug:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. There are supplements you can take

that can restore memory if it is starting to slip, and which, it is believed, can help keep you from developing Alzheimer's. This includes taking ibuprofen, believe it or not:

http://www.futurevisionsfoundation.org/IbuprofenandAlzheimer.htm

[JanusAscending]

10. Hi again!

Yes, I saw the movie "Notebook", and it was a tear jerker! At least they were together at the end. My Dad died about a year before my Mom. It was the "blessed pneumonia" that finally took her.I know that sounds strange to say, but that's what the nurses referred to it as. Mom was a DNR, and we just made her as comfortable as possible with morphine. I wasn't with her when she passed, neither was I with my Dad in Hospice. The little buggers slipped away behind my back, and I think they planned it that way! I had been to see them both the night before, and planned on going back the next morning. I even had an argument with my Dad the day before he passed. He said, "I'm going to be going home this weekend", it was a Fri. and I asked if the Dr. told him it was OK? Because I had promised him he could die at home if he wanted, but he was there because of bedsores, and until they were healed, he had to stay. When I told him he couldn't go home, he shouted back "why can't I if I want to"? The next morning, on his birthday, he went home. It didn't really hit me what he was talking about 'til it was too late. I had planned on seeing him on his birthday, but the stubborn ole mule went home like he planned!:cry: :grouphug: P.S. I forgot one important part. Have you ever heard of what's called a "whisper from God"?? Shortly after he passed, he came by my house at 3 A.M. and knocked 3 times on the house outside my bedroom window to say goodbye. I woke up, went outside and put on the lights. No one was there, no animals either. My husband heard it too from his bedroom. The funeral director told me about the "whisper from God" thing. Many of the people's family's who are left behind have told of things like this happening to them.

[OneGrassRoot]

11. No, I've never heard of the "whisper from God".....

but it makes sense to me. :)

The night my father passed suddenly and oh so unexpectedly two years ago, I was with my mom, at their home. We live a few hours away from one another, so I had visited only on weekends periodically.

They had a new dog that I had seen a few times, but hadn't spent a ton of time with.

That night, Abby (the dog) came to me and was clearly disturbed/anxious/uncomfortable. She slept with me all night (she never slept away from my mom and dad), and if my arm would slip off of her, she would paw at me to keep my hand on her. She didn't want me to pet her, she just wanted that contact, obviously for comfort or reassurance.

The next morning my mom said she had the most vivid dream of my dad, coming to see her.

I have a strong feeling he was indeed there, and Abby sensed it, but he was in a form she didn't recognize or understand and it made her uncomfortable in some way.

[BuelahWitch]

14. When it first started, I was confused as to why she would go into this

only at certain times of the day. She would be fine in the morning/early afternoon, but around 5-7 something would happen and she's slip into being "someone else." A coworker who was a psych major told me about "sundowning", and then it made sense. She'd worked in a nursing home for awhile and said that many of the residents would "sundown" at certain times each day.

Thanks for the hugs. Those years were hell for me, between getting no respite help and having to deal with uncaring employers who didn't understand when I had to take time off to take her to doctors. People who had kids got to leave all the time, but apparently parents didn't count as family.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. Yes, I'm sure it is a time when the veils of time and space are lifted

I've seen glimpses of this--merely glimpses, mind--only one quite vivid of a person standing in a doorway, watching what I was doing. It was the former tenant of the apartment in which I was moving--she was (and is) very much alive, just living over a thousand miles away. I was working in a room long used by the owner of the house for meditation and I was in a meditative state, as I was constructing my altar. I have no doubt that people towards the end of their lives do, sometimes, get glimpses of other dimensions to prepare them for the joy that is to come.

[elleng]

12. Useful information about Alzheimer's:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=317x3325

[OneGrassRoot]

13. Thank you, elleng....

:hug:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. Glutathione

is another supplement that can help when it comes to Alzheimer's