My mother has Alzheimer’s and it is devastating to watch someone you love lose everything including their speech and mobility. But at the same time I wonder if it is a blessing. For those; like my mother, who at 105 are too old to have the medical establishment care any more and who lives with cancer literally coming out of her skin yet somehow still survives, whom has lived without her husband of 55 years losing him 25 years ago on September 11th and whom have seen all her friends pass - maybe Alzheimer’s is a blessing. Maybe it’s a blessing she doesn’t see what’s happening in the world as the US Capitol Building is attacked by “American’s” after she and her husband served protecting our freedoms in three wars - WWII, The Korean War and Vietnam and or she sees our military in Iran. My mother lives with Alzheimer’s daily and we try to find the little things she still hangs onto like watching Gunsmoke, The Golden Girls and Murder She Wrote, dessert and every night telling her “I love you Mother and tomorrow morning we are having coffee and breakfast together.” Those words always put light in her eyes and make me hope for another moment in time with one of the most wonderful humans I have and will ever know. I feel for those and their caregivers whose Alzheimer’s create those horrible images of loss, pain and or fear and am lucky medicine has calmed my mothers images but; at least, once over they forget that and go on with their day which also may be a blessing that they don’t remember that episode after it’s happened each day. I feel for anyone giving care to someone they love living with Alzheimer’s it’s hard work especially for those who have to do it with little help and assistance and or those of us who choose not to have that help now for fear of bringing Covid and or other diseases into the home - as happened to my mother with her nursing care! Mostly I feel for those with the disease and I pray we find a cure or a way to slow the progression.