THE ALZHEIMER by ROSI

 My father had the Alzheimer's disease, he began to have oblivions, he took his car and after he didn´t know where it was, he was in his car until he remembered where he would go, then he followed driving and he got home. So he had some oblivions, then we told him that he should go to the doctor, but he didn´t understand why and he didn´t go.

A day we were in the town, he was walking and he fell down to the ground, then we went to the emergency service, but the doctor told me it wasn't anything serious.  After two days, we went to the emergency service in Zaragoza, I left there my parents, but the doctor told  them the same, it didn't matter.

After another two days, my mother called the emergency doctor, he told her the same.  Next day I was going with my children to my parents' home, my father had fallen in the bath and he couldn't stand up, I stood  him up, and then we went to emergency again.  The doctor told me the same, but I told her, he wasn't well, at the end she did some medical tests to my father, she did a scanner to him, and then they saw that he had a clot in his brain and if he wasn´t operated in two days, he could die.

They had to do an emergency operation twice because he had another clot. He was into hospital for two months but his head  began to be worse.  We decided to spend his time in an elderly people´s home.  We went to visit him every week, he told me that my child was his child, sometines he thought to follow working and he told me he had to work.   And so every week, during three years.

A day he fell ill and we went to the emergency service, he was there for eleven days and at the end, he died.

In my opinion this illness is very hard because you see as litte by little, they stop living and they just see how days are passing by. 

For this reason it is better to go to doctor when you feel the first symptom because it is easier to treat it in the beginning, so this illness can go more slowly and you can have a better quatity of life.

ROSI