“I have
something important to say,” I said to my husband. He got a worried look on his
face with this preface to an announcement. We had been talking about COVID-19
so he may have thought I had a fever.
“What’s
that?” he asked, cautiously.
“I love
you,” I said, thinking that we just didn’t say it enough.
“I have
something important to say too,” he said. I smiled in anticipation of words of
love. “You snore.” He then proceeded to tell me he had spent several hours in
the living room watching TV and eventually catching some ZZZs.
Life
has certainly changed over the past few weeks. We Americans are used to going
where we want and socializing often. Now to stem COVID-19, we are spending more
alone time than ever.
The
first indication that things were getting serious in my world was the
cancellation of the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement (AIM) Forum in DC. My mom and my
husband both had tried to talk me out of
going to DC and were thankful the decision had been taken out of my hands. I
spent a day cancelling hotel rooms and plane tickets.
To stop
the spread of COVID-19, we as a nation
and as individuals are taking extreme action. People have been placed in
quarantine, and prohibited large group gatherings have shrunk from 1,000 people to
50 or less. It’s not easy or inexpensive to shut down venues, concerts, schools, after
school activities, professional sporting events, and to hang out the CLOSED
sign on restaurants, small businesses, and physical therapy clinics.
Today, our
pastor announced our church would be closed for deep cleaning and they have
postponed other activities. The next Sedalia Business Women’s meeting has been cancelled, and other upcoming meetings will probably be cancelled too.
Personally,
I’ve been in a funk and can’t seem to get motivated to do much of anything.
Lack of sleep and not going and doing as usual, has zapped my enthusiasm.
I have
something important to say: Although the
AIM Forum has been cancelled, advocacy work must go on.
·
Approximately 5.8
million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease. Presently, there is no cure or
effective treatment for Alzheimer’s. This is why research funding is so
important!
·
In 2019, unpaid
caregivers provided 18.6 billion hours of care for people with Alzheimer’s, at
a value of $244 billion.
·
Two-thirds of
Americans with Alzheimer’s are women
·
Two-thirds of
dementia caregivers are women. Thirty percent are older than 65. Only 10% are
caregivers for their spouse while over half provide care for a parent or
in-law.
I have
some upcoming telephone conferences, and possibly video conferences. I dread
video because that means I should fix my hair and put on makeup. That’s been
optional for a while. The only place I’ve been lately was to practice music at
my brother’s house. We’ve decided to have more jam sessions while we wait for
the nursing homes to open their doors to volunteers.
I just
need to keep reminding myself that there’s still work to be done and,
eventually, life will get back to normal.
When my
husband left home the day of our conversation, I asked him, “Don’t you have
anything important to say?”
“I love
you,” he promptly replied.
“I love
you,” I said, “but you snore too!”
Copyright
© March 2020 by L.S. Fisher
#ENDALZ
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