Exploring Lewy Body, Loved Ones and Poetry
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Lori La Bey host of Alzheimer’s Speaks Radio talks with poet Su Croll who shares her experience of caring for her Father with Lewy body dementia. Her prose express the range of emotions when caring for someone with a chronic illness and insights as to the caring journey itself from many angles. Listen in anytime once the show goes live as all episodes are archived for your convenience.
Hands and Face by Su Croll
It is true. I will remember the hands and face.
The whole frustrating trickery of the thing.
My mother tells how she dogged him
to get all numbers limned at their true points.
Noon and midnight made for due north.
Six headed south. The clock becoming
a demented compass, a supposed proof
fumbled for in that doctor’s office
right before my dad was officially diagnosed.
I don’t know where his attempted drawings
of clocks are today. I don’t know how
that suddenly uncertain face triggered
his ragged response. Three and nine left off
or the hands wayward and drawn in the blank
outside the clock. I don’t know why that wrong
clock condemned him, tripped him up, making
that day the day they told us with all certainty
it was dementia.
Contact Su Croll at:
Website: https://sucroll.wordpress.com
Book: https://www.turnstonepress.com/books/poetry/cold-metal-stairs.html
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/su.croll.9
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