The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 11 by Lavinia Spalding

Author:Lavinia Spalding
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRV000000 Travel / General
Publisher: Travelers' Tales

My last visit home before leaving on my backpacking trip, my dad brought me to the nursing home, and we entered the elevator. He knew the security code to make the doors close—a safety feature to prevent the Alzheimer’s patients from wandering onto another floor or out of the building—and he paused before hitting the button.

“You might not recognize your mother anymore,” he said. “The disease has taken a real physical toll in the past few months.”

I braced myself for the worst, my stomach hard with dread. I closed my eyes.

When the elevator opened, my dad gestured across the room. “There she is.”

I forced my eyes to open, and saw the skeleton of a woman arranged on a recliner. Her eyes were sunken and her cheeks were two dark hollows. I gasped.

“No, no, no,” I cried, the words rushing forth before I could stop them.

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