Riding Barranca (2013)
“She is now in a rehabilitation facility, but it has become quite clear to my sister, who has just flown in from Wisconsin, that Mom is not going to recover. Our niece, Daphne, is also there and when she tells Gramma they are going to have to move her, Mom says softly, “No hospital, home.”
After conferring with the doctors, Cia decides to Med-Vac Mom back to Oconomowoc. The godsend is that she will never have to go into a nursing facility, or live through the terrible end-stage of Alzheimer’s.
Y...ears before, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, I was with my mother during her first bad hallucination episode. Even though it was way past midnight, my mother was wide awake. She thought that she had been watching a movie—it had been like a waking nightmare.
“There were people all over the room,” she said, “hoards of them, Muslims and blacks. And then I was in the cockpit of some Army plane, flying over a place like Siberia. It was so wintry and cold, and there were battleships and rooms and rooms of brothels, with men doing things to each other, beating up women, hurting small children.MoreLess
After conferring with the doctors, Cia decides to Med-Vac Mom back to Oconomowoc. The godsend is that she will never have to go into a nursing facility, or live through the terrible end-stage of Alzheimer’s.
Y...ears before, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, I was with my mother during her first bad hallucination episode. Even though it was way past midnight, my mother was wide awake. She thought that she had been watching a movie—it had been like a waking nightmare.
“There were people all over the room,” she said, “hoards of them, Muslims and blacks. And then I was in the cockpit of some Army plane, flying over a place like Siberia. It was so wintry and cold, and there were battleships and rooms and rooms of brothels, with men doing things to each other, beating up women, hurting small children.MoreLess
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