{"id":481,"date":"2019-02-15T14:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/?p=481"},"modified":"2019-05-28T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:17:49","slug":"dementia-erases-everyones-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/2019\/02\/15\/dementia-erases-everyones-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia Erases Everyones Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cristian-newman-63291-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-482 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cristian-newman-63291-unsplash-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cristian-newman-63291-unsplash-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cristian-newman-63291-unsplash-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cristian-newman-63291-unsplash-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cristian-newman-63291-unsplash.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><\/a>My mother doesn&#8217;t know me! I&#8217;ve said this many times and for the past five + years, I would say it&#8217;s okay if she doesn&#8217;t&nbsp;know who I am because I still know who she is.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with dementia is it robs the person of their history and memories. &nbsp;Slowly they become a shell that barely resembles the person they used to be. &nbsp;The other problem is that it robs the loved ones of their memories as well. &nbsp;With each visit, a good memory is driven farther back in my mind and a new memory of a sad, demented person takes its place. &nbsp;Eventually, all my memories will be of a woman who once was fluent in four languages but now only babbles sounds that mean nothing. &nbsp;The woman who once walked everywhere in any weather, that now sits motionless in a wheelchair occasionally&nbsp;crossing and uncrossing her legs, unaware of happenings around her.<\/p>\n<p>I walk away in tears, with a heaviness pressing down on my chest, crushing me, my heart breaking a bit more with each visit. &nbsp;I still know who she <em>used<\/em> to be and that is not the person who is taking over all my memories of my mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>My mother doesn&#8217;t know me! I&#8217;ve said this many times and for the past five + years, I would say it&#8217;s okay if she doesn&#8217;t&nbsp;know who I am because I still know who she is. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/2019\/02\/15\/dementia-erases-everyones-memories\/\" title=\"Dementia Erases Everyones Memories\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[65,62,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}