not something I do a lot
Some related pieces of information:
1. My work is doing the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk on Sunday, October 14.
2. The Alzheimer's Association is a bunch of cheap bastards and will only give you a t-shirt if you raise fifty bucks.
3. Alzheimer's really sucks, you guys.
I know several of the people on my f-list have family or friends who have Alzheimer's and related dementias. As most of you are probably aware, I work at an assisted living and memory care facility and I deal a lot with Alzheimer's patients. Like, daily. It is honestly hard to describe how hard it is on everybody around Alzheimer's patients, not just the patients themselves. I don't know, I try to think of a story from work to illustrate it but there's so many and they're all so funny and horrible, it's hard to pick just one. There's one lady who spoke five languages and worked as an interpreter in Indonesia with her father, who worked with Shell Oil and once asked me if she'd been a good sister to me. There's another who wrote for one of the big East Coast newspapers and was part of the smart set of Virginia. She had a catastrophic reaction about her bed not being made today and it took four people and two hours to calm her down. There's the professor from Canada who asks for a cigarette every five minutes because he can't remember just smoking one. There was one lady who could go from "I'm waiting for my son" to being convinced her entire family was dead and we were lying to her about it. My great-grandmother, according to my mother, got to the point where she would scream at my great-grandfather to leave the house because she didn't recognize him.
Just. So many beautiful intelligent loving people with their minds being slowly wiped away.
All that to say, if you would like to help me raise some money for the Memory Walk, my paypal address is meg at fenya dot net and if I get over fifty dollars something could be arranged. *eyebrow wiggle*
Anyway! Work kind of sucked but I am trying to look on the bright side, like how we got a new fax machine and Boss and I cooed inappropriately over it, and also how the latest Arashi no Shukudai-kun features Sakurai Shoko, from a maid cafe and really, how can you hate a world that has Sho in a maid uniform? (He looks better in heels than I do, the fucker.) The only thing that could have made it better is if he'd been wearing thigh-high fishnets with lacy tops, but Becky and I have reluctantly concluded that perhaps that would cause the world to explode from awesome, or at least us. Also there was Aiba in a suit and Jun in a nurse's uniform.
1. My work is doing the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk on Sunday, October 14.
2. The Alzheimer's Association is a bunch of cheap bastards and will only give you a t-shirt if you raise fifty bucks.
3. Alzheimer's really sucks, you guys.
I know several of the people on my f-list have family or friends who have Alzheimer's and related dementias. As most of you are probably aware, I work at an assisted living and memory care facility and I deal a lot with Alzheimer's patients. Like, daily. It is honestly hard to describe how hard it is on everybody around Alzheimer's patients, not just the patients themselves. I don't know, I try to think of a story from work to illustrate it but there's so many and they're all so funny and horrible, it's hard to pick just one. There's one lady who spoke five languages and worked as an interpreter in Indonesia with her father, who worked with Shell Oil and once asked me if she'd been a good sister to me. There's another who wrote for one of the big East Coast newspapers and was part of the smart set of Virginia. She had a catastrophic reaction about her bed not being made today and it took four people and two hours to calm her down. There's the professor from Canada who asks for a cigarette every five minutes because he can't remember just smoking one. There was one lady who could go from "I'm waiting for my son" to being convinced her entire family was dead and we were lying to her about it. My great-grandmother, according to my mother, got to the point where she would scream at my great-grandfather to leave the house because she didn't recognize him.
Just. So many beautiful intelligent loving people with their minds being slowly wiped away.
All that to say, if you would like to help me raise some money for the Memory Walk, my paypal address is meg at fenya dot net and if I get over fifty dollars something could be arranged. *eyebrow wiggle*
Anyway! Work kind of sucked but I am trying to look on the bright side, like how we got a new fax machine and Boss and I cooed inappropriately over it, and also how the latest Arashi no Shukudai-kun features Sakurai Shoko, from a maid cafe and really, how can you hate a world that has Sho in a maid uniform? (He looks better in heels than I do, the fucker.) The only thing that could have made it better is if he'd been wearing thigh-high fishnets with lacy tops, but Becky and I have reluctantly concluded that perhaps that would cause the world to explode from awesome, or at least us. Also there was Aiba in a suit and Jun in a nurse's uniform.