[flatbutt]

My Mom will be 92 next month. She's been in assisted living for nearly two years now because she just can't be left alone. I have made peace with her eventually forgetting who I am and indeed that has begun to happen.

But I was not prepared for what I realized today as I sat trying to converse with her. She is becoming a stranger to me. We can't have a conversation about anything as her mind simply has no focus and her memory is really in tatters.

I don't know how to relate to the person she is becoming. I tell her about my life, her grandchildren and their children but none of it ,at least very little of it seems to make sense to her.

I'll not stop visiting her or telling her what the family is up to but dang this is hard to watch.