For many older people, Alzheimer's disease is a war that began in old age, in which there is little chance of victory.
Wang Xiuhua (not her real name), 67, lives with her wife in a county town in Fuyang, Anhui Province, where her two daughters work. The children are very worry-free, the old two live in the countryside, there is nothing to do with the flowers and vegetables raised, the days are very comfortable.
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But in 2019, Wang Xiuhua suddenly suffered a cerebral infarction, and thus fell behind the sequelae - Alzheimer's disease. Although the children took her around to seek medical treatment, the answers she got were that there was no possibility of a cure.
After getting sick, Wang Xiuhua's personality became silent and liked to go out alone. Her wife was worried about her, so she went out for a walk with her every day. On the afternoon of November 13, his wife wanted to go to the county town to run errands, and she could only leave Wang Xiuhua alone at home. Before leaving, her wife told her not to go out and to hang out with her when he returned.
Wang Xiuhua agreed, but could not bear the loneliness of being alone at home, or decided to go out for a walk. When she saw that the new road in the village had been repaired, she walked around the newly built road. But since she hadn't walked this road, she made a mistake at the fork in the road and walked in the opposite direction of home.
At 7 p.m., my wife returned home, but found that Wang Xiuhua was not at home. He searched the village and asked the neighbors if he had seen her, and the answer was "no." Realizing that something was wrong, he quickly called his daughters.
After receiving a call from their father, the sisters rushed back to their hometown overnight. "We heard that my mother was lost, so anxious that she didn't change her clothes, and rushed back at 1 a.m." When I thought of such a cold day, my mother didn't even wear a cotton jacket, and I cried out in fear. Second daughter Li Ting (pseudonym) said.
On the night that Wang Xiuhua went missing, the father and daughter did not close their eyes all night. After Li Ting called the police, she asked the whole village to help find it together, but she still did not find it that night. The next day, she turned to the major search platforms. After receiving the news, the headline search staff issued a search notice at noon on the same day. At 3 p.m., a well-wisher saw the search information at the end of the headline and contacted Li Ting, saying that she had seen Wang Xiuhua on the street. "I wanted to see a lot of people today's headlines, and the probability of finding my mother through this platform must be very high, and I found my mother successfully." Li Ting said.
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It turned out that Wang Xiuhua had been going north after getting lost, walking more than 40 kilometers for 2 days and 1 night, and sleeping on the firewood stack at night. "When I picked her up, she was covered in ash, so I took her to a shower, changed into new clothes, and cut her hair." Li Ting said.
Leaving her parents to live alone in the village, the Li Ting sisters have always disagreed. But my parents were used to living in their hometown and did not want to live in the city. "My dad said that in my hometown, my mother can still go out for a walk when she has nothing to do, and it is easier to get lost in the city if you are not familiar with the land. If she were locked up in a tall building, she would be very unhappy. Li Ting said.
In fact, whether it is a wife or a child, the care of Wang Xiuhua is very meticulous. It's just that for the elderly with Alzheimer's disease, going lost is an unavoidable thing. "Before, I used to come back from the city every Saturday to visit them, and then come back to the city on Sunday night; usually my mother went out for a walk, and she also took a step, and my father followed a step, and this loss was indeed an accident." Li Ting said.
With this lesson, Li Ting decided to buy her mother an anti-lost bracelet. "Our sister has a very good relationship with her mother, and this feeling of losing her is too uncomfortable, so we must find measures to make up for it." Li Ting said.
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