Visiting Iowa and My Father

In late February, I visited my father in Iowa. Unless you've experienced the upper midwest in winter, you have not experienced cold. One morning it was a minus six degrees, another was a minus two. Yuk!

My father has alzheimers, and one of the effects is that he has problems remembering. He constantly tells you the same thing, because he doesn't remember telling it. Or he'll ask the same question constantly, because he doesn't remember the answer. It can be a challenge responding afresh to the same conversation.

We had to sell his car, because he is no longer able to drive. That was a challenge, since he didn't want to stop driving. As he told me, 'getting old is no fun.'