I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
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My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes -- eyes that had not opened for many, many days -- and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.Patti Davis
I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever ... childhood wounds were left,
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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
Patti Davis
I heard his stories about ice skating as a kid along this river, that went on for miles, and miles and miles, and in winter when the river had frozen.
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I speak for many others when I say that none of us believe a cure is just around the corner. We believe it's around a very wide bend.
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I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
Patti Davis
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