My dad and I did some research.
It looks a lot like my mom has Lewy Body dementia,
which is different than Alzheimer's.
Either way, there's not much left of her.
I had no idea she could lose so much weight.
Tendons, muscle - what's left of it - veins,
Starkly visible underneath
the skin loosely draped over the bones.
I am conscious of being grateful for my own roundness,
My firm flesh, my strength and coordination.
At least the spectre of inherited Alzheimer's disease
can pass me by, since Lewy's appears to be random,
A hit-and-run disease, likely to spare me degeneration
but leaving pain and chaos in its wake
as my mother dies slowly, cell by cell by cell.