Apo E 3/4 My father is so sick. Sometimes I don’t know what to do. He cried a lot today and when I asked him why he said, “It’s all wrong. I don’t know myself anymore.” I look into those beautiful blue eyes I have known all my life remembering the love pouring out of them while he bandaged my scraped fingers and bruises. Now I see fear. I have an infection in my finger and I recall how he taught me to soak it. I spoke of this today and he said, “Warm water – it has to be warm water with salt, to draw some blood to it,” remembering his instruction like so many other doctor-things things he memorized for decades and repeated by rote to hundreds of patients. I got my Apo E Genotype test result today. ¾. 60% predilection for Alzheimer’s. What does this mean? That in 40 years I could be like my father holding the hand of a younger person telling them, “It’s all wrong?” Daddy, I love you You helped so many people Dr. Reimann in your white coat always took the stairs, never the elevator ate an apple every day “keeps the doctor on his way” he told me so many times with a smile. Written on July 12, 2013
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 09:26:43 +0000