For my father
My father has Alzheimer’s. The hardest part wasn’t the diagnosis — it was realizing how much of his day we couldn’t see. The questions he asked the walls when no one was home. The small confusions we only learned about too late to help.
So I built him a voice. One he can talk to anytime, that knows who he is, and answers him the way we would — patiently, every time. Each evening it tells us how his day really went, and each of us, wherever we are, can quietly make tomorrow’s answers a little more right.
It’s early, and it’s still mostly his. If you’re living something like this with someone you love, I’d like to hear from you.