Alzheimer’s: My Personal Story On the Edge of the Black Hole
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This is a story of one family's fight against Alzheimer's. For those of us who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, there is a kind of mental gravity that sucks us down and drains us of useful human energy until the light from our souls fade. Can we battle against this force? The author writes of his history with Alzheimer's and of his own battle with this disorder.
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Alzheimer’s - Ralph H. Weaver
Alzheimer’s:
My Personal Story
On the Edge of the Black Hole
By
Ralph H Weaver
Copyright 2012 Ralph H Weaver
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Edited by
Joan E Savage
Cover Illustration by
Daniel P Savage
Other Books written by Ralph H. Weaver
I Don’t Think You Understand What I Mean – How we are unaware of our own beliefs and how they color our decisions.
The 60’s Dream (Chasing Success) - being aware of what type of success we are pursuing. (Revised Edition of I Don’t Think You Understand What I Mean
Imagining the Works of the Divine - seeking the works of the Divine in our relationships with others.
Books available in both digital and print editions
Copyright © 2012 Ralph H Weaver
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
(Laughing Collies Press)
Table of Contents
Forward
Chapter 1 - On the Edge
Chapter 2 - Not a Cure
Chapter 3 - Challenges to Life as We Age
Chapter 4 - Second Childhood
Chapter 5 - The Bucket List
Chapter 6 - The Continuation of the Odyssey
Chapter 7 - Not Bad, not Perfect, but Doable
About the Author
Forward
We are not writing medical advice nor are we promoting one medical treatment over another, this is just one family’s story.
This is the story of a personal battle. The battle of an individual who became scared, really scared. It is also the story of his family, his wife and adult children. They became concerned. His wife, who is his partner in all things, was very concerned. She was and continues to be the driving force in their goal to live a healthy life. They did not deny the symptoms and sought out the diagnosis early.
The end result of the fear and the concern was this book. The author tells in his own words of his memories of society’s reaction to Alzheimer’s when he was a child. He talks of his own battle, of how he and his wife planned to fight this disease and how they carried out this plan.
The ability to be proactive was important, to be able to research, to plan, to look forward into the future with hope instead of despair.
Chapter 1 - On the Edge
The subtitle of this book, of course, is a take on the black holes in the universe as described by leading students of Physics. Astronomers observing the stars with their powerful telescopes noticed these mysterious objects. The mystery of these unidentified objects was pursued by the very brightest mathematicians. They finally solved the puzzle about these anomalies in the universe. These places are where tremendous energy is at work. This energy is the irresistible force of gravity that sucks even light into the body of a collapsed star. The result is a complete and total absence of light in that area of the universe, hence the name of this phenomenon, black hole
.
We will talk more about light later, for light is the source of ridding the elements of laziness in the mind, especially since a lazy mind turns out to be a source of some types of dementia. A person can be amazed when thinking about the four fundamental forces in the universe. One of these forces, gravity, seems to govern even light. When given enough mass, gravity can control all the other forces. It draws unto itself all essence of detectable light, creating an inescapable darkness.
So it is with us, as we age there is a kind of mental gravity that sucks us down and drains us of useful human energy until the light from our souls fade. This occurs while the biological organism, the flesh, the body continues to exist. This black hole
beckons and entices all who are close to the edge of mental decline, into the dark maw of dementia.
So I have chosen the title as befitting what seems to happen when dementia takes control of the human being. There is still energy present, but like a pull which is irresistible, the person with the ailment is drawn into the darkness of the mind. Slowly, inexorably, the darkness occurs, resulting in the involved person not recognizing anyone. Eventually a mental eclipse envelopes the mind and a twilight of reasoning occurs. When the person becomes unaware of his humanity and cannot care for himself, he begins to draw all those who care about him into another kind of black hole, this is one of despair. The individual, through a kind of