Unforgettable Emotions

While talking to my dad tonight on the phone, as he gave the weekly update on my grandpa, I remembered an article I read last week about Alzheimer's patients and their emotions. With having two grandparents currently living in nursing homes - both suffering from different stages of what I'll lovingly call memory loss - this article truly touched me and brought a little hope and a little peace into my life.

There's nothing good I can think to say about having two grandparents suffering from such a devastatingly deplorable disease, but when reflecting on the findings of the study this article talks about, there is a little sliver of a silver lining. My grandpa and my grandma may not remember 5 minutes after I left that I was there visiting, but this article does gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, I've lifted up their spirits. It doesn't matter if they can't explain their elevated moods - in what little quality of life they have left, being in good spirits has become the important part.