<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Soliloquy of Dementia]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">Okay, everybody, get OFF my stage, it’s, MY turn to “perform now”!!!</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">Wait, what was it that we’re, talkin’ ‘bout again?  I forgot…</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">I wake up, what day is this?  Did I have my meals yet, did my children come visit me today?  Who are you?  What are you doing in my house?  Did I already eat?  Did I go to get the groceries this morning?  Where’s my money?  You took it, didn’t you?  Who are you again?</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">I got up from my nap, and the world as I knew it, became, no more, I wake, in this, strange bed, with this, unknown person next to me, now, she’s, trying to, take my clothes off (ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, somebody help me, I’m being RAPED!!!).  Now, the person stuck a straw into my mouth, what’s this, sip on it?  How do I know, you’re NOT trying to, poison me, to attain all my money?  I want my children!!!</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">As dementia progressed…</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">I wake up, in a daze, it’s dark all around, and, is that you my mom?  How have you been?  Oh, I do, miss you so very much? Did you, go visit grandma yet?</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">Walking into the bathroom where there’s a mirror…</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">Hi there, grandma, I miss you, oh so, very much, how come you’re, never around anymore?  Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, I’d, soiled myself again!!!  What are you doing, pulling down my pants?  And why are you, drowning me?</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">And that, is just, the smallest portions of what’s going on, in dementia’s day…</span></span></p>
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