'Writing helps me to forget the man I merry-ed is forgetting ... More importantly, the words on the page also help me face up to remembering this is our current reality,' author Sheree Fitch writes of her and husband Gilles Plante's navigating Alzheimer's.
Kissing the joy. Sheree Fitch and her husband, Gilles Plante, embrace at the end of opening day of their bookstore, Mabel Murple’s Book Shoppe and Dreamery in River John, N.S., in 2017. - ContributedSheree Fitch is the author of “Mabel Murple” and other books for all ages, including a quirky tragi-comedic novel for adults called “Kiss the Joy as It Flies,” which was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock medal for humour in 2009.
By the time the intern called us, we were in gales of hysterical laughter. I tried to explain between snorts about Nat King Cole singing “Unforgettable.” And the diapers. He didn’t seem to think it was funny. He took my Deeply Dimpled French Man away and I sobered up. “It could be worse,” he added. In that I agreed. I had feared a brain tumour, cancer, imminent death.Again, laughter through our tears. A sun shower.Then Portapique. George Floyd, lost and stolen children. Insurrections, wars, floods, fires, threat of nuclear, and need I go on?Our little life, the unpredictability, the grief, the journey ahead is only ours.
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