The annual Walk to Defeat Alzheimer’s was held last Saturday with great enthusiasm and participation. I was told that adding university students to the event gave it extra energy.
While I could not walk I benefited from a visit from several members of the Bob Agler family. Bob was an Alzheimer’s victim and my lifelong friend, accountant, and business partner.
My mom was a victim too, passing away almost twenty years ago.
Today I honor Bob and my mother Steliouse Sauder and all others who are victims of that dreadful disease with The Alzheimer’s Prayer that goes like this:
Don’t ask me to remember
Don’t ask me to remember,
Don’t try to make me understand,
Let me rest and know you are with me.
Kiss my cheek and hold my hand,
I’m confused beyond your concept,
I am sad and sick and lost,
All I know is that I need you
To be with me at all cost.
Don’t lose your patience with me,
Don’t scold or curse or cry.
I can’t help the way I’m acting,
Can’t be different though I try.
Just remember that I need you,
That the best of me is gone.
Please don’t fail to stand beside me,
Love me ‘til my life is done.
Amen & Amen, for all Alzheimer’s victims, their caregivers, relatives and friends.
I’m Steve Sauder
