The Long Goodbye latest update

 My mother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's for over a year .She still has some long term memory but her short term memory is gone completely.
She remembers little of her life from the last 40 years for instance,

I show her photos of the family and her childhood home in Ireland, which she enjoys, but I have to remind her who they are.
Sad to see my intelligent , feisty mother like this. She was always so full of life, gardening, bowling but now she has little joy.
She doesn't like
mixing with other people so won't attend a day centre like my father.
She loves making words from scrabble cards and doing word searches.
I was told that  the part of the brain we use for this is a different section and hers is intact.
Her personality seems stripped back to its essence and all of her negative views and anxieties have gone -she's like a different person and I 'm seeing who she would have been without her difficult marriage and hard life.

I had a dream in which my Irish Grandmother came to tell me she was looking after Mum. I didn't tell my mother , but the next time I saw her she told me she couldn't sleep "Because My Mam keeps visiting me - she came one day with other people with other people and I wanted to go with them, but I was told to stay."

I am learning how much I love her at this time .I visit again in a few day and will bring about the town we lived in most of our lives.