Living with Alzheimer's is always interesting and full of surprises. In the process of clearing out and cleaning up, hubby and I came to the conclusion that it was foolish to hang on to a large collections of CDs, most of which we never listened to anymore. The plan is to let them go and empty the wonderful cabinet they had been occupying for way too many years. I had not used any of them since I can remember and was content to just see their interesting cases waiting in the cabinet. So yesterday I assigned my life partner the job of going through the CDs to keep what he wanted in a new basket and put ones to part with in another box...destinations labeled so he couldn't forget. He did a marvelous job and created a huge stack of CD cases to delete.
Great! Then it was my turn to pick out any that I might want to hang on to. Whoops! As I checked case after case, they were empty and I tossed them on the floor. But where did the CDs go that belonged in the cases? I found a few in the car case but where were the others? After a diligent search, I found them all stacked in a drawer of another cabinet. It seems when hubby played a CD, he never put it back in its case. This must have been going on for years, not that we haven't all done this occasionally but we are talking over a hundred...more evidence that the disease may have been present long before diagnosis.
Guess what I'll be doing today!
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Yes, I now realize that P had the disease when I met him. I thought he was just eccentric but the angry explosions, the losing everything and losing him at DFW, among many other things added up to the fact that I was already involved with a wonderful man with Alzheimer's, tragically.
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