"Our common culture has lost the joy in children, the tenderness for the ill and handicapped, and the priority given to bonds of family and friendship over personal comforts," Sharon Mollerus.
Today we are going to a friend's funeral. Diagnosed with cancer just weeks ago, he is now dead. Seems a merciful way to go. But that is not the journey for those of us caring for someone with dementia. Our task is to love the person in the very slow and difficult decline; to value life in its slow dismantling.
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