One Theory about Alzheimer's

[ChristopherSea]

Thanks. Everyone reads things differently (the beauty of poetry / art). You are familiar w/Alzheimer's. I lived w/Alzheimer's. There is nothing "optimistic" about it. Nothing. No reality for the afflicted. A life, yes. But only one of the past. Nothing in the present. Never to the future.

Agreed! I should have qualified my statement. An AD patient with a preserved memory of the past in late stage disease is rare. Short term memory may fail first, but long term memory loss follows for the majority. The long term afflicted live only in a confused state of the present until death. My Aunt and Grandmother died with no sense of the past. There minds were empty of all experience, yet they could still do some things themselves, albeit robotically.

Those memory clips in your poem are all good ones. Therefore, I saw them as a spark in a realm of darkness. A second read gives me that same feeling of an AD patient at least having something to hang onto. I wish my loved ones had those recollections when they passed. Hence, my comment was in that vein. Please accept my deepest apologies, if my observation sounded like an insult to someone has had a suffering loved one.