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No holiday mines the memory like Christmas. The holiday spirit rides on a tide of memories. Memories of faith, memories of family and, yes, memories of food. What happens, then, when a disease steals our memories<\/a>? What happens to Christmas?<\/p>\n

During the course of my mother\u2019s Alzheimer\u2019s, I often asked myself what becomes of us when our memories are gone. It\u2019s as if our memories are like a mirror that reflects who we are, and slowly our image fades in that mirror until we find no one there at all. Alzheimer\u2019s is a disease that breaks hearts as well as minds<\/a>. Whether or not I am susceptible to the same disease that took my mother, I hope I never forget her last Christmas.<\/p>\n

That year we had decided it had become too taxing on my mom to take her from her Alzheimer\u2019s unit to Christmas dinner with us. Osteoporosis and heart problems had set in, and she was growing weaker. December 25 was very cold, the way it should be in Michigan. My brother Joe, my sister, Mary Lou, my sister-in-law Toni and I\u2014along with my nieces Clare and Rachel, my cousin Carol, and my wife, Julee\u2014piled into our cars and headed to Clausen Manor to see Mom. \u201cDoes she even know it\u2019s Christmas?\u201d I asked Julee on the way.<\/p>\n

Clare and Rachel brought chocolates<\/a>. Julee and I had a plant, which I knew Mom would water to death before the new year. Carol put an elaborate Twelve Days of Christmas<\/em> pop-up book in Mom\u2019s lap. It was this last gift that captured Mom\u2019s attention as she sat silently in her wheelchair. We were all chatting when out of nowhere, Mom began to read aloud: \u201cOn the\u2026first\u2026day of\u2026Christmas, my true love gave\u2026to me\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

We stared in astonishment. Mom had long since lost the ability to read. Yet she forged on: \u201cOn the\u2026second day of\u2026.\u201d Turtledoves<\/em> changed into turtle dolls<\/em>, hens<\/em> into hills<\/em>, maids<\/em> into moms<\/em>. By the tenth day, Mom was clearly tiring. I started to help her with a passage when she suddenly shot me a look I hadn\u2019t seen for some time and snapped, \u201cAre you going to let me do it myself?\u201d<\/p>\n

An instant of stunned silence gave way to laughter, save for Mom, who cast us a strangely knowing look. Then she let the book close, apparently having forgotten she\u2019d been reading it.<\/p>\n

Did Mom know it was Christmas? For that one bright shining moment<\/a>, we all knew it.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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