{"id":1892,"date":"2015-03-29T22:38:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T03:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2015-03-29T22:38:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T03:38:54","slug":"hope-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"Hope With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_8790\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As I walked down the hall towards my mother\u2019s room in the nursing home, I passed a woman who used to live across the street from us in the old neighborhood.\u00a0\u00a0 She is also a resident, due to her failing health and cognitive decline, so I always take a moment to chat with her. Today, as I paused, we held hands as a sign of our close friendship. She asked, \u201cHas your mother found her mind, yet?\u201d Taken back by her question, I replied, \u201cI hope so.\u201d Quickly she answered, \u201cI hope so, too.\u201d I began to walk away, then turned and said, \u201cThank you for hoping with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, that day was the beginning of my mother\u2019s improved clarity. She has maintained her ability to make eye contact, reach for her favorite soft toy and even nod her head in answer. Over the last two weeks, several of the staff and even my sister have commented on her improvement.<\/p>\n

I realized that I haven\u2019t expected my mother to improve, only to decline.<\/p>\n

Today, someone reminded me of a scripture that made me think of how I\u2019d accepted my mother\u2019s fate and possibly even my own. It took my little friend to put the idea in my head that I was able to hope for more. Not only hope but expect. 2Timothy 1:7 says \u201cFor God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” ( NKJV).<\/p>\n

Thank you, sweet friend, for pointing me toward hope for a better day and not just accept the death sentence of an Alzheimer\u2019s diagnosis.<\/p>\n

My friend with Early Onset Alzheimer\u2019s disease has this tattooed on her arm. \u201cWhile there\u2019s life, there is hope.\u201d Agreed. Hope in this<\/strong> life and for the next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I walked down the hall towards my mother\u2019s room in the nursing home, I passed a woman who used to live across the street from us in the old neighborhood.\u00a0\u00a0 She is also a resident, due to her failing health and cognitive decline, so I always take a moment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[458,457,456],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-publication","category-personal","tag-2timothy-17-nkjv","tag-early-onset-alzheimers-disease","tag-hope"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4cxZR-uw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}