POV: Coming Home to Non-Strict Parents

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Alzheimer’s is a rollercoaster where the track appears just moments before the wheels hit it. My sister, aunt and nephew visited dad today. In my sisters words, “He went from non-verbal to giving commands, from out of it to agitated because he wanted to be ‘here or there’, from I can’t lift a finger to pickup a M&M to taking the bag away from me and squeezing them out to feed himself, to feeding himself lunch.” This is the hardest part about the disease in my opinion. The not knowing. The consta