Miriam Green
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The residents in Mom’s ward can’t be isolated one from the other. They need constant supervision.
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Miriam Green
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Miriam Green
- Apr 1, 2020
- 3 min
Conversation in the Time of Corona
We are no longer surprised by her absence—we know she cannot be home with us—but we miss her nonetheless.
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Miriam Green
- Mar 25, 2020
- 3 min
Opening Virtual Windows
It’s important to put our Corona pandemic into perspective. We are not being persecuted. We have enough food.
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Miriam Green
- Mar 18, 2020
- 3 min
Oatmeal Corona Muffins
If I try and look at the positives, I can find them.
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Miriam Green
- Mar 11, 2020
- 3 min
Alzheimer's and Corona
The combination of age and close living quarters in geriatric facilities creates opportunity for the virus to spread.
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Miriam Green
- Feb 26, 2020
- 5 min
Lessons From My Cat
Moving my cat Zipper reminded me how someone with Alzheimer’s might react to a planned upheaval.
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Miriam Green
- Feb 19, 2020
- 3 min
An Unbirthday Card
When I started sorting papers and things that have been sitting in my bedside table, I came across a stack of birthday cards that my...
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Miriam Green
- Feb 12, 2020
- 3 min
Blue Notes
Rather than push her to interact, we took her back to the common room and put her headphones on.
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Miriam Green
- Feb 5, 2020
- 4 min
Words, Words, Words
My mom is not always in a good mood, and her English is quite spicy when she’s angry.
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Miriam Green
- Jan 29, 2020
- 4 min
Riding the Ferris Wheel
Sometimes we are truly flying high, other times we are dragging near the bottom. Always, we are moving.
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Miriam Green
- Jan 21, 2020
- 3 min
The Creativity of Caregivers
It is up to us to give them the tools to continue their lives in the public sphere as long as possible.
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Miriam Green
- Jan 15, 2020
- 4 min
Leaving Home
Mom is no longer in our orbit of care. Neither I nor my father—who still visits her everyday—can know what befalls her during her day.
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Miriam Green
- Jan 8, 2020
- 4 min
An Open Window
I was privileged to have an intimate conversation with a young acquaintance whose father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
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Miriam Green
- Jan 1, 2020
- 4 min
Renewing Resolutions
My mom is still here, diminished though she is, and I have the privilege of seeing her.
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Miriam Green
- Dec 18, 2019
- 4 min
Responsibility
It is a relinquishing of myself to be with Mom in the now. Pretense and artifice and having other things to do falls away.
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Miriam Green
- Dec 11, 2019
- 4 min
Music, Here and Now
New technologies and medicines are years away; music is here and now.
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Miriam Green
- Dec 4, 2019
- 4 min
Clothes Make the Woman
The difficulty of sorting through and parting with my mom's clothes.
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Miriam Green
- Nov 27, 2019
- 5 min
Beautiful Girl
There is no reasoning with Alzheimer's. Nor is there an ability to recognize an authority figure who may be acting on your behalf.
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Miriam Green
- Nov 20, 2019
- 3 min
Goodbye and Hello
It’s not a matter of how many goodbyes we have left, but how many hellos
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Miriam Green
- Nov 13, 2019
- 4 min
Slumber Party
Current events have a way of affecting all aspects of Israeli life, even my mom’s. She’s not cognizant of what happens outside the walls...
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