My grandma has Alzheimer’s. Yes, that’s the disease where they forget everything, even their own children and grandchildren. I know, you’re thinking what an awful and how sad for us. Yes, it is an awful disease and it is sad at times, but we’ve learned to look past the sadness. Now we just laugh at it, it is either that or cry. I know you’re trying to figure out how can we laugh at something like this, well let me tell you how.
We laugh at the fact that my grandma still has her sense of humor, she laughs at everything. Sometimes she even gets into these fits of laughing and she can’t even stop and it just melts your heart. She still loves to talk to people, her sentences don’t make much sense, but she still tries anyway.
The few people that actually understand what is going on with her and talk to her back, they make her day.
She still loves the dog, maybe a little too much at times, she tries to share all her food with her (including chocolate). But the thing that makes us laugh the most with her, is her attraction to the younger guys. Every time a guy she likes shows up on the TV she goes “oh that’s a good one” and it is just the cutest thing.
My 80-year old grandma with Alzheimer’s is still swooning after the celebrities.
But there are still times when it hits you that she will never remember who you are, she won’t see you get married and understand what is going on. She won’t ever be able to really comprehend what you are saying again, she might not even remember who she is at some point. These are the times when it actually hits home that my grandma is suffering through this disease.
But with help from aids and my family, she is still thriving and as happy as an 80-year-old Alzheimer’s patient can be. So please don’t think us cruel for laughing with her, it Is either laugh with her or cry about the pain that this disease causes us loved ones.
But after all that, my grandma is still my grandma and I love her more than words can describe, even if she likes the dog more than me right now.
