Tag: Alzheimer’s Disease
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Cold autumn nights
Maria Magdalena GeanovuStroesti, Romania It is said that balance exists, that for every misery an equal amount of happiness is about to come . . . Sometimes I wonder . . . when you see death every day of your life, those random strains of thought begin to gravitate around one single, simple question: WHY?…
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The perfection of illness
Zohaib AhmadPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States It is often but little appreciated that the creative and the consummate can be conceived in the throes of disease. The process of being ill can change people, not only through the mental stress, but also through the neurological changes inherent in neurodegenerative diseases such as in Alzheimer’s disease, where…
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In the spider’s web – Landscapes – Intelligent design
Daniel Thomas MoranMassachusetts, USA Poet’s statement “In the Spider’s Web” is about a visit I made to see my late grandfather at a nursing facility in Michigan as he was suffering from the final stages of Alzheimer’s Disease. This poem was included in my collection From HiLo to Willow Pond. “Intelligent Design” is a little…