One of our nurses told me about a recent fulfilling experience. A precious man, still young in his 60’s, and preparing to fulfill with his wife some of their dreams of world travel, fell victim to an aggressive dementia. The wife noticed some memory loss in her husband, and within 6 months he was in the advanced stages of dementia.
One can imagine the heart-breaking previous 6 months: hoping the doctors would find a cause and cure, not allowing oneself to believe the day to day mental disintegration, and refusing to accept what was reality because it was too painful.
Once they had resigned themselves to accept what was happening and what was going to happen, they called Texas Hospice. After a couple of weeks of receiving our services, the wife mentioned to our nurse, “Once we found Texas Hospice it was like a big burden being taken off our shoulders.”
We humans, made in God’s image, can be agents of His comfort. “Come to me you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
