A Detour Through A Nursing Home

My wife, brother and myself are visiting a nursing home in northwest Arkansas.  My mother-in-law is a resident of this nursing home because she is suffering with the Alzheimer's disease.  She is no longer able to care for herself.  Her memory, seems to us, to have no logical sequence.  She recognizes us but, then may talk to us as if we are strangers.  It is not fun visiting a loved one in a nursing home.  There are better ways to spend vacation time.  Nevertheless, visiting my mother-in-law it is not only what we are supposed to do but, also, we want to do because we are family.  Life's journey doesn't always go the way we planned. Sometimes life takes us on a difficult detour.  Even if a portion of life's journey has been detoured through a nursing home, it is nice to have family with whom to share the journey.