I Just Want to Wake Up

My mother has been living with me and my teenaged daughter part time for the last year When the pandemic hit we lost our personal support workers and I found myself juggling caretaking homeschooling and work Because of Alzheimers my mothers mind is slowly departing but her essence has not changed Much of what she has been experiencing for years profound disorientation anxiety mental fogis what I was experiencing during isolation With snippets of night time conversations and a stack of my drawings Ive created a sense of our world together a world of overlapping thought lapses bent time lost words the absurd and love Heather Frise