You have Alzheimer's Disease 
and you are losing the power 
to remember - to reason - to understand, 
to do the simple tasks 
we take for granted: 
to put on a shoe - 
to button a shirt - 
to read a book - 
to remember a face or name.
It is a hard thing to understand - 
to ac cept ... 
but I know you cannot help it - 
cannot act otherwise. 
I must take you as you are and expect not more, but less.

---- a caregiver's thought.