Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go. (John 21:18 ESV)

This terrible disease has stolen the life from the confused elderly woman. 

No longer able to dress herself properly she is cared for by others.

Memories are confused and all but forgotten. Can anyone know how much she suffers?

She can feel the kindness and love of her family and friends.  But who are they?  “I know you love me; I can sense it deeply but who are you?” she softly utters.

Alone and confused she is in another world.  She cannot perceive the path before her.  When she walks those streets once known, she is quickly lost when she turns a corner.

What a horrible affliction that leaves the human shell but steals the mind and tortures the soul.  Where memories once lived, there is nothing left save the void of an empty black hole.

This lovely woman once gifted with grace and creativity is not alone at all but an all-consuming fear and frustration, livid with delusion and anger, has taken its toll.

She will indeed stretch out her hand and inevitably be led where she does not want to go.