Feb 13, 2014 • This is a hard thing to say, but Ida May’s time is very soon now. If you have been thinking about coming over and saying anything to her, you should do it as quickly as you can. I don’t know if she can hear you – in my heart, I like to believe that she can – but I know it makes me feel better to talk to her even though she can’t say anything back.
It feels so ironic to me that I’m watching her leave me just as the “miracle cure” for Alzheimer’s is coming into play, that drug that nobody can even pronounce and everyone just calls “Tau.” Tauremonpravadil? Something like that. I haven’t had enough energy to watch the news. All I know is that there are so many people it could help, but only the very rich at this point can even dream of affording it. It’s too late for people like Ida May, but those just diagnosed? So help me, if I could keep just one person from going through what I’m going through right now, so help me, so help me. This is hell on earth.
meelie meelie meelie sue sue sue,
I wish I could be there. I am so sorry.
I want better words for this. There aren’t any good words for this.
Etta, please go hug Meelie for me, OK? And then say it’s from me. Feel free to sneak in a noogie, too.
This new drug sounds amazing but scary. Haven’t there been problems with some of the dosages they’ve tried prescribing or something?
Tim and I will come over tomorrow, bearing flowers and valentines. And you know I will talk to Ida May–she can hear us, I know it. The spark in her eye that you can still see every now and then tells me that she does.
Meelie Sue, I am on my way. (Karen Baker’s hair can wait until tomorrow.)
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