SKY Crack (Alzheimers=sad)

[BFT Gibson]

My Pop Pop worked for PPR as mason & then Dispatch. Quite a few times in the 1920's lightning struck the PPR Harrisburg Tower. He had taken a few strikes over the years & then the brain started to fade into Alzheimer's.. would go over to his house & help as he faded & right before he passed taught me to do concrete..he couldn't even talk at that point but i understood & we formed & poured the most massive 1' thick set of porch steps. He taught me to work in the cabinet shop at around age 10. learned all the safety to most tools& then he put me to work. i treasure the work ethic i was taught ! Sometimes you just get a song & toss the emotion right at it..this is one of those... watching the decline tore me up..

SKY CRACK
V1) I have been to the mountaintop..heaven wasn't found
I will never get there..I give up I don't care
V2) I have climbed to the mountaintop..and i looked down
Inside looking out..Nothing was found
C1) Crack Crack Crack.. Crack the Sky (4x)
V3) Demons the demons they pry they pry at me
Demons the demons..somebody save me
V4) Peekin in the mirror..nuthin is clear
Only the loneliness..and the fear
C2) Crack Crack Crack.. Crack the Sky (4x)
V5) Started in a journey Into my mind
And i left.. all my sanity behind
V6) Twisting and turning and pulling my hair
Banging my head full of despair
Twisting and turning and pulling my hair
Banging my head full of despair
C3) Crack Crack Crack.. Crack the Sky (4x)

Outro) Help Me ..Help Me..Will you help Me !!
I am Dying..can't you see !!

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

BFT, I can understand your experience in so many ways. Grandad, learning to work, and the ways you cared for him while witnessing his Alzheimer's.
I experienced my own parent's mental challenges, strokes, dementia, bipolar and even immobility. Having a dear lady friend who's mom got Alheimer's, I would hear her experiences when she'd visit her mom till she passed at around 90 years old. It'd good to hear of the impact your relationship with your grandad had on you.

Now I will listen. Shewie that was a deep and brooding listen. It almost speaks to fears I have on if my memory goes like it did your grandad.
Here's to ya, bro.

 

[iblive]

My Grandpa passed in the 70s. He pretty much went down the path of what today we diagnose as Alzheimer's. Wasn't called that then. Dementia, yes.

Then my Mother-In-Law was diagnosed with dementia mid 2000s. She was a story teller. I've heard all the stories from her youth in Boston to after she moved with my Father-In-Law to a little rural Western Illinois town. Heard them dozens of times. Never once did the story or the participants change..... till the ugly of Dementia set in. Stories started to change. Different people and places. And then she'd repeat the story 15 minutes later.

I know there's a difference between Alzheimer's and Dementia. but darned if I know what it is from a scientific point of view. To me.... the process and the ending are the same. And no matter how you slice it, it sucks. Family and friends lose that person years before they actually pass. Sit there and see mom not recognize her own daughter.

 

[BFT Gibson]

BFT, I can understand your experience in so many ways. Grandad, learning to work, and the ways you cared for him while witnessing his Alzheimer's.
I experienced my own parent's mental challenges, strokes, dementia, bipolar and even immobility. Having a dear lady friend who's mom got Alheimer's, I would hear her experiences when she'd visit her mom till she passed at around 90 years old. It'd good to hear of the impact your relationship with your grandad had on you.

Now I will listen. Shewie that was a deep and brooding listen. It almost speaks to fears I have on if my memory goes like it did your grandad.
Here's to ya, bro.

I remember you going through that, So sad to to see the decline. Sometimes there is a brief moment of clarity & you think they are back but the slip happens. Thanks for listening

 

[BFT Gibson]

My Grandpa passed in the 70s. He pretty much went down the path of what today we diagnose as Alzheimer's. Wasn't called that then. Dementia, yes.

Then my Mother-In-Law was diagnosed with dementia mid 2000s. She was a story teller. I've heard all the stories from her youth in Boston to after she moved with my Father-In-Law to a little rural Western Illinois town. Heard them dozens of times. Never once did the story or the participants change..... till the ugly of Dementia set in. Stories started to change. Different people and places. And then she'd repeat the story 15 minutes later.

I know there's a difference between Alzheimer's and Dementia. but darned if I know what it is from a scientific point of view. To me.... the process and the ending are the same. And no matter how you slice it, it sucks. Family and friends lose that person years before they actually pass. Sit there and see mom not recognize her own daughter.

Sorry to hear that, that fade that happens years before the pass... difficult for sure.