I never in my life imagined that I would witness someone start to go insane. It is one of the saddest things in the world; Seeing someone whither away. Irene was always the sweetest old woman at Middlebrook Farms. She always had the nicest things to say and was always trying to keep the peace. A couple of weeks ago, they were testing her out in the Harbor. When I found this out I was baffled, such an incredible, sane woman was possibly being put in the Dementia/Alzheimers wing of the Nursing Home. It made me angry because I thought nothing was wrong with her. I was told she was crying the entire time she was in the Harbor. I'm glad I didn't see it because I would have broken down.
The next week we were back at Middlebrook farms I saw Irene, back in the 'normal' part of the building, and we were trying to get her to play Bingo with us. She was acting nothing like her self; speaking in sentences that literally made no sense, saying that there was a Kite you could hold onto and it would take you anywhere in the world you wanted to go, hearing people when they talked to her but not listening to what they were saying. After 10 minutes with her, I understood why they were thinking about putting her in the Harbor. You never know how long you are going to have. One week she was fine, and the next she was slowing losing it. You would never imagine Irene to be the one who would slowly go insane. God throws a lot of curve balls, but you just need to remember through it all that you'll get that homerun eventually.
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