Continuing education

Tonight is DH second class for conceal to carry permit. I know that this is doing good for him. Not in the sense that it is curring his dementia. I know that dementia is a progressive disease and it will not reverse. However, he has had a migraine for almost six weeks. The migraine is going away. Whether it is because the doctor's have found a medicine that works or that he is doing something that makes him happy, the migraine is being concurred.

This is a man who has no hobbies. He collects guns. He loves scuba diving (too expensive). He loves motorcycles (again too expensive when he constantly wants to upgrade). At home and in the evening he has nothing to do. I read, quilt, use my computer for quilt design and yes I even play solitaire on the computer. I do not like sitting still and doing nothing. In many ways he is the same, but he never picked up something that can be done in the quiet of his own home.

I saw the testimony of Sargent Shriver's daughter Maria Shriver Swartzenegger about Alzheimer's disease and it really hit home. Here is a man that was a major player in the Kennedy years, a vice presidental candidate and now he can remember to go to mass and say his rosary, but he does not recognize his daughter. All dementia patients slowly go backwards in their lives. They loose the short term memories and then the mid-term memories, but continue to remember the childhood things. What a loss we all share.

Please keep praying. It helps us all.