Today, it is World Alzheimer's Day, reminiscent of Amandas, an old man with Alzheimer's disease in the movie "Honey in the Brain".
After the death of his beloved wife, Amandas began to have all kinds of abnormal behaviors.
He would talk gibberish at the picture of his daughter-in-law on the wall;
He put his daughter-in-law's high heels into the oven and almost caused a fire;
His memory was slowly lost, but he only clearly remembered his wife's favorite white rose before she died.
Like other Alzheimer's patients, Amandas can accurately realize that he is getting worse day by day, so they are under tremendous double pressure, both psychologically and physically. As a result, Amandas began to become grumpy.
Later, his granddaughter Tilda came to accompany him. He told his granddaughter that he longed to be reunited with his wife in heaven, and his head wanted to be mushy and glued together.
His memory was slowly deteriorating, and he appeared more and more moves that he could not control:
He cried when he almost burned the house in front of his daughter-in-law, panicked and ashamed;
He cried when he was embarrassed by the garlic mayonnaise on his face at a family gathering;
When he found himself "not remembering anything", he was helpless, he was sad.
Amandas and the youngest granddaughter Tilda
He tried his best to use his last remaining logic to leave a message for his granddaughter: "If one day, I no longer remember who you are, no matter what, I want you to know that I love you, that you are the best little princess in my heart." ”
Although Amandas really didn't remember her little granddaughter later, she said before he died: "I know who you are, you are my little princess, always will be." ”
At the funeral, Tilda put a jar of honey in her grandfather's coffin.
In fact, Amandas is a lucky Alzheimer's patient, because for many elderly people with this disease, when the memory is on the "slippery slope", they face helplessness, blame and emptiness.
They will gradually forget a lot of things, forget to eat, forget to go home, forget their families, forget their names... But they never forgot love. More love, more understanding.