9th December
2011
Our mountain is nigh unto impossible the last few months although there are some good times and even humor tossed in now and again. Due to the fact that it seems posts should be more private, I’m asking any who cares to keep reading to please advise me and I’ll be sure to include you as a reader. (How’s that for a run-on sentence, Donna!)
This will probably occur after January 1st.
In case I haven’t said it before with enough emphasis, “I hate you, Alzheimer’s and truly wish you could be conquered – sooner the better.”
We will have family for Christmas and look forward to it.
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Hi, Jean,
I’ve been thinking about you two, wondering how you’re coping, worrying. I know how disheartening this is. I’m glad your family will be there for Christmas.
Please keep my on your readers list.
Please include me on your reading list. I think of you and Wayne often and keep you in my prayers.
I’m another hater of Alzheimer’s!!!!!!
Hugs,
I have been following your “mountain climb” for about 4 years. I’m not going to climb or hike any more mountains, since I fainted and fell off a mountain trail and broke my spine and now am a paraplegic. I spend a lot more time on the computer and discovered your blog and have looked forward to your posts. I feel like I know you and I know it’s onesided, but I admire you and feel empathy for you. It’s a hard journey you’re on and I sometimes feel it’s one I’m on too. I hope they find a cure for this terrible disease. I live in Florida and actually have a good life with a good husband and a daughter who helps me a lot, a son who doesn’t live close, but gave me a beautiful grandbaby. I have much to be grateful for. I wouldn’t choose my life, but I try to make the best of what I have and I know you do too.
I want to share in your journey. Please include me. I pray for your continued strength and fortitude.
I am in for the long haul:)
Please keep me on your list. I think about you both often
Please include me in your list…I think of you often.
I have been following your jouney for two years when ours began.Please include me on your list .It helps me to prepare for the future.
Please keep me on your list too. I check in at least weekly and think of you often.
Please keep me on your list. Please know my thoughts and prayers are with you, even though we are many miles apart.
Please keep me. I think of you so often.
Please keep me on your readers list Jean. I hate the disease too. I pray there are some good times left. I’m glad you will have some family for Christmas. sandie
Please keep me, I think of you often and check on you, don’t comment very much, but I do care. Ive been following you for about two or three years. I hate the disease also. Robbing a very close family member…..
Rest easy, Jean–your grammar is flawless. No need for teacherly dispensation.
PLEASE include me among the interested. And caring. And wishing the same wish for a victory. The Biblical passage comes to mind–O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? AD is living death if ever there were such.
I will continue to hate Alzheimer’s with you. And I would appreciate if you would include me when you update how you and Wayne are doing. You have been on my prayer list for a couple of years, and when you post something, it is often something tangible I can ask God to help you with. Your faithfulness, through it all, is a testament to Love, a dispensation of Grace.
It must feel so private and raw at times, and there are rarely words for a comment from me, but I care for you and want to share your journey; if there is any consolation at all, I pray it helps to have a safe circle here who keep you close to their hearts.
Please count me in. I want to follow you on this roller coaster ride. Your posts give me hope that I might be able to face this dread condition if that should happen in my life. You are an inspiration.
Jean, I’m in too. Have figured that things were escalating for you and have been hoping and praying for your strength to keep YOU going. Hugs.Susan
It had become very important to me to know that you are okay. I was so relieved to see this post pop up on my reader. Yes, please keep me on your list of readers and know that I am thinking of you and Wayne and holding you both in my prayers.
Please include me as well. Your posts have been very helpful to me as we navigate this same horrible mountain with my mother…
Jean, I would like to be included also. I pray for you and W., and you are a comfort to me as someone who helps care for a loved one with dementia. My mom and my sister and I care for my dad (diagnosed in 2005) at home. I have two-year-old twins, so I am of less help to my mother just as she needs me more. She vowed to care for Dad at home until his death, but her health is not good, and we have been having more difficult conversations. I join you in cursing Alzheimer’s disease from the bottom of my soul.
Jean, I would also like to be included. I know that Alzheimer’s will be coming my way – genetic disposition, I guess. Your input helps me see things clearer, and prepare my family.
I would like to continue following your blog, please. Your enduring spirit and love for your husband are an encouragement to me – I took care of my elderly mother until 4 or 5 years ago when she died.Your care helps me feel content about my care.
Thanks so much.
~Mad(elyn) in Alabama
Jean, I care and want to continue following your journey. You are in my thoughts and prayers. I am praying for a cure to this horrific illness. Love, Janice in San Diego
Please keep me updated and on your list. Thank you…
Thanks for asking, Jean. I, too, would appreciate your including me on your list. Color me another “hater” of AD!
You and your family remain in my heart and prayers.
I haven’t left a reply before that I remember but I do read your posts and pray. I am not sure of the list but I would like to be on it if that is alright.
Please add me as a reader!
Jean, I’ve been a terrible blogger for over a year but I do still think of you often and check in here from time to time. Will you please keep me as a reader?
Merry Christmas Jean. Thinking of you and Wayne and wishing and hoping for better days and uplifted spirits for you both. Blessings be upon your heavy heart and burdens.
You’re a prime example of what true love can be. You two are a real life love story.
Hugs, Susan
Merry Christmas, hope you have a wonderful day!
Just stopping by to wish you a blessed Christmas. I totally agree with Corgidog Mama about you and Wayne being a “real life love story”!
Hugs,
Myra