Alone

"The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them." Sue Monk Kidd

There will be times in life and as a caregiver when we will feel very alone.  It is part of our perception as humans to think we are separate from one another, and there will be times when it seems we have been abandoned by even those closest to us.  Dementia, by its very nature, is a type of abandoning.  We who love the person with dementia are abandoned as the person is caught ever increasingly in the clutches of the disease.  There are decisions that only we can make.  To help offset this feeling of aloneness, let us be sure to have good support systems in place.