"Margie", ninety years old, suffers from Alzheimer's Disease. She lives in an assisted living center. With Alzheimer's, quite often, patients will remember something that happened years ago, but will forget if they ate lunch. In Margie's reality, she was forty-five years old and was perfectly content and happy to be in that place. This was her reality.
MAKE BELIEVE WORLD
Happy and relaxed
while napping in her room.
She'll smile when she sees you,
"What are you kids doing here?"
She'll talk about her grandpa,
who gets cranky now and then.
How her parents are doing okay.
"They live nearby you know."
She can't remember who's the president.
She believes she's forty-five.
She messes up her family's names,
but she'll give you the biggest smile.
She is becoming more confused.
Her daily needs are increasing.
Her family visits often.
They see her slow decline.
But she is happy and content.
Unaware of what others see.
Her reality is faulted.
Blessings in the form of
a make believe world.
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