A Silent Cry
Viewing comments for Chapter 11 "Come My Love"Development of Alzheimer's Disease.
12 total reviews
Comment from Margaret Bednar
from the "lips closed"... to "Even when he laughs he is someone else" really pushes home how difficult it is to emotionally deal with it all from a caretaker's point of view. Chilling and sad.
reply by the author on 12-Aug-2020
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from the "lips closed"... to "Even when he laughs he is someone else" really pushes home how difficult it is to emotionally deal with it all from a caretaker's point of view. Chilling and sad.
Comment Written 12-Aug-2020
reply by the author on 12-Aug-2020
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I love you for all these wonderful and understanding reviews, Margaret. They are so soothing. It is all over now, but I wish now I had the courage to post these poems at the moment I wrote them. These reactions could have helped me so much!
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I think such emotional writing is often too close to us to let go of right away...
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You are right of course. Then, it is also a bit my character. I thought it was too private, that I couldn't burden people with these problems. After all, they couldn't change a thing! (How wrong I was)
Comment from Justin Chopin
A very bold piece Marjon. I thought the intensity you used to express you desperation with your husband's Alzheimer's was very realistic and made for a very real and honest poem . Keep up the great work.
reply by the author on 10-Aug-2020
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A very bold piece Marjon. I thought the intensity you used to express you desperation with your husband's Alzheimer's was very realistic and made for a very real and honest poem . Keep up the great work.
Comment Written 10-Aug-2020
reply by the author on 10-Aug-2020
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Thank you, Justin, for a nice review.
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You're welcome.
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Smiles.
Comment from Gert sherwood
AH what an great example Marjon van Bruggen
when you feel so filled up with despairing thoughts and causes you to feel like your are going to lose your inner tension and ready to explode.
Gert
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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AH what an great example Marjon van Bruggen
when you feel so filled up with despairing thoughts and causes you to feel like your are going to lose your inner tension and ready to explode.
Gert
Comment Written 08-Aug-2020
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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Thank you for the review, Gert.
Comment from Suzanna Ray
Dear Marjon, the little "pac man" ( from the video game ) that was chomping it's way thru your husband's brain just hit one of those places where the automatic signal to breathe just got eaten. I am sure his behavior was never intentional.
Surely you can see and understand this Now, but it must have been terrifying for you Then.
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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Dear Marjon, the little "pac man" ( from the video game ) that was chomping it's way thru your husband's brain just hit one of those places where the automatic signal to breathe just got eaten. I am sure his behavior was never intentional.
Surely you can see and understand this Now, but it must have been terrifying for you Then.
Comment Written 08-Aug-2020
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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Suzanna, it was, indeed terrifying. Most of the poems in this series are written at the moment when things happened, and I post them also in that order (or mostly so). And now, thank God, I can see things more calm and rational. I left the poems unchanged. They are more authentically that way. Thanks for the review.
Comment from Sandra du Plessis
A very well-written heartfelt poem about the Alzheimer's patient that sometimes acting like a naughty child and it seems he us testing your patience and see how far he can push you.
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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A very well-written heartfelt poem about the Alzheimer's patient that sometimes acting like a naughty child and it seems he us testing your patience and see how far he can push you.
Comment Written 08-Aug-2020
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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Sandra, yes, the sad thing was that he really acted like a child, no, became a child, not a grown up man.
Thank you for the review.
Comment from estory
What I liked about this was that it was a personal conversation with your husband. We overhear you talking to him, trying to make a connection with him, and not quite being able to do it. The frustration comes through loud and clear. "A high, crackling sound. Even when he laughs, he is somewhere else." That is really telling of this condition. One of the worst things about this disease is that it robs you of your relationship with someone you love. estory
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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What I liked about this was that it was a personal conversation with your husband. We overhear you talking to him, trying to make a connection with him, and not quite being able to do it. The frustration comes through loud and clear. "A high, crackling sound. Even when he laughs, he is somewhere else." That is really telling of this condition. One of the worst things about this disease is that it robs you of your relationship with someone you love. estory
Comment Written 08-Aug-2020
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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Thanks, for another welcome review. I wrote: "even when he laughs, he is someone else." I thought it even stronger than somewhere else.
Comment from royowen
That's what men are expert at, being vengeful, and the thinking man will try to overcome that tendency, I know when my dad was physically incapacitated due to his inabilities, an active, creative man when young, he was reduced to a motionless, angry man, and who blame him? Although Carlo was reduced in capacity memory in some form remains I think, it must have been a terrible time for you. Beautifully and in trial written Marjon, blessings, Roy
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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That's what men are expert at, being vengeful, and the thinking man will try to overcome that tendency, I know when my dad was physically incapacitated due to his inabilities, an active, creative man when young, he was reduced to a motionless, angry man, and who blame him? Although Carlo was reduced in capacity memory in some form remains I think, it must have been a terrible time for you. Beautifully and in trial written Marjon, blessings, Roy
Comment Written 07-Aug-2020
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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Thanks, Roy, for the kind review.
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Welcome
Comment from Ric Myworld
As I often say, when it comes to poetry, I wouldn't know a sonnet from sorbet. But I do know enough that when words can touch my heart and stir emotions, I'm alive. Thank you for sharing. I wish I had a six.
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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As I often say, when it comes to poetry, I wouldn't know a sonnet from sorbet. But I do know enough that when words can touch my heart and stir emotions, I'm alive. Thank you for sharing. I wish I had a six.
Comment Written 07-Aug-2020
reply by the author on 08-Aug-2020
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Very kind of you! Thanks for the review. I am above all a "free-verse" writer. I can write rhymed poetry as well, but feel more at ease with the non-rhyming forms, because I can express myself better. Don't worry about the six, I am glad with the appreciating 5 stars as well.
Comment from country ranch writer
The calm before the storm of the resent he harbors inside. All is not as it should be in there relationship evidently walk softly to avoide his wrath.
reply by the author on 07-Aug-2020
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The calm before the storm of the resent he harbors inside. All is not as it should be in there relationship evidently walk softly to avoide his wrath.
Comment Written 07-Aug-2020
reply by the author on 07-Aug-2020
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Thank you, country range writer, for your review. Carlo was definitely NOT himself anymore, being so affected by his illness. I had to tiptoe around him trying to give him the best care that was possible.
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Feel,your pain
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Thank you.
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Comment from Andrelyn Izquierdo
So much emotion riled up within me and your words kept me hanging onto every word to keep reading on. It sounded so loving, then I got worried, then sad, then worried again. This chapter is moving. Keep up the fantastic work.
reply by the author on 07-Aug-2020
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So much emotion riled up within me and your words kept me hanging onto every word to keep reading on. It sounded so loving, then I got worried, then sad, then worried again. This chapter is moving. Keep up the fantastic work.
Comment Written 07-Aug-2020
reply by the author on 07-Aug-2020
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Andrelyn, thank you very much for this kind review.
