Wondering how we settle our minds when a good person, giving, gracious, kind and hard-working all her life gets a horrible disease like AD? So many people say she doesn't deserve it and it's a long horrible road to be on. What do you say to those people? I know in my mind that illness and disease aren't handed out like punishment from the universe to only the "bad" people among us, but still... sigh.
I just found out his sweet wife has Alzheimer's. I couldn't feel worse about it. All those years of hard work and sacrifice--and this happens.
As my hubby often says "It rains on the just and unjust alike". Still stinks, but he's right.
Great book by a rabbi whose son suffered from a truly awful disease. He makes some sort of sense of it all.
What to say to people? "Medical research is very important, we should support efforts to find causes and cures". "It's SO important that there are programs to support caregivers and patients; support candidates who get that". "It's a wonderful thing to volunteer to drive for Meals for Wheels, Friendly Visitors, in Senior Centers, have you thought about doing that?"