...I think I miss my mind the most.
This should have been an Emmy award-winning episode, most for its verisimilitude in its portrayal of the heart-breaking truth of watching a highly intelligent person who recognizes the slow but inevitable decline into the darkness of dementia.
I had a friend, a retired Air Force Major General, who at one time worked in the National Reconnaisance Office, directing the operations of our nation's satellite network, who attended many a launch of military payload satellites from Vandenburg Air Force Base, who had Alzheimer's. The was in this episode many of the same things happen that happened with my friend. It is indeed a hard and unhappy thing to watch, knowing that individuals with this affliction will one day no longer be the people we knew, and we will become strangers to them.
The anger he felt is real, and too the helplessness and anger felt by his wife, who was finally able to be with the man she wanted for so long, only to realize that when she could be with him, he was no longer the man she wanted.
Dylan Thomas said it best:
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
This should have been an Emmy award-winning episode, most for its verisimilitude in its portrayal of the heart-breaking truth of watching a highly intelligent person who recognizes the slow but inevitable decline into the darkness of dementia.
I had a friend, a retired Air Force Major General, who at one time worked in the National Reconnaisance Office, directing the operations of our nation's satellite network, who attended many a launch of military payload satellites from Vandenburg Air Force Base, who had Alzheimer's. The was in this episode many of the same things happen that happened with my friend. It is indeed a hard and unhappy thing to watch, knowing that individuals with this affliction will one day no longer be the people we knew, and we will become strangers to them.
The anger he felt is real, and too the helplessness and anger felt by his wife, who was finally able to be with the man she wanted for so long, only to realize that when she could be with him, he was no longer the man she wanted.
Dylan Thomas said it best:
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.