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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368900" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Helpless With Dementia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was a victim of dementia<br>I could not remember recent things<br>Confined to a small lock down area<br>When I had a visitor, I was so happy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can’t remember that I wasn’t a real mother to you <br>Or when I let others abuse and beat you too<br>I am now at the mercy of all others<br>Oh how I pray you forgave me too</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You tried your best to take care of me<br>But I kept wandering off, only wanting to be free<br>You felt such guilt and cried many tears<br>When the doctor said you could no longer take care of me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know you searched many nursing homes<br>To find that special place, that would care for me<br>A place of love, where i couldn’t roam<br>A place with nurses, where I’d be safe</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You paced the floors and cried<br>Each time they sent me to the hospital<br>They would say I must haven fallen<br>They were convincing with their lies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bruises on my face, they weren’t all falls<br>Violent patients abused me<br>I was at the mercy of all of them<br>Said they wouldn’t break elder laws</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had an excuse for everything<br>Blow after blow<br>You tried to stay most of the time<br>For you they put on a show</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you were there <br>They would paint my finger nails<br> And fix my hair<br>When you were gone I was tied to a chair</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They took my dignity and self respect <br>They were paid by the hour, and didn’t care<br>Towards the end, they say I fell and broke my hip<br>Next week told I fell and broke my leg</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once a week I was at the emergency room<br>You always beat the ambulance there<br>The last hospital visit, I got a staph infection<br>The doctor said i was near the end</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I couldn’t tell you what they did to me<br>Because I forgot so much<br>You stayed by my side until the end<br>Telling me you loved me, and softly singing hyms</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The angels came for me one night<br>And ended all my pain<br>Please don’t cry for me anymore<br>I’ve been made whole again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I look down at you, and wish I could take the pain away<br>I’m in heaven now and this is where I must stay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To all that have loved ones with dementia, please guard their care.<br>All nursing homes are not the way they seem. They will put on a show for you so they can make their blood money. They neglected and abused my mother. So I am her voice.<br>To my mother who did the best she knew how to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Donna+Nimmo">Donna Nimmo</a><div class=q>
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I could not remember recent things
Confined to a small lock down area
When I had a visitor, I was so happy

I can’t remember that I wasn’t a real mother to you 
Or when I let others abuse and beat you too
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