A couple of weeks ago I was talking about my dad to a person I worked with, and telling him about all the problems we are having.
His response was "well at least you still have your dad, mine passed away".
No....No we do not "still have our dad", there is very little of our dad left in Bob. No... when someone has dementia you do not "still have them". You have their body, but it has been taken over by a future stranger. Every day that goes by they are less and less the person you know.
Soon Bob will be replaced with an old man that is genetically related to me/us, but he will not be "Bob".
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