Husband of Sandra Day O’Connor finds love at Alzheimer’s facility.
November 14, 2007 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and family are living a true story of love, loss, and Alzheimer’s Disease. According to news reports, the husband of Sandra Day O’Connor has found love with a fellow Alzheimer’s suffer in the care facility they are living in. This is, according to experts, not an uncommon occurrance.
Watch these videos to see how and why the O’Connor family are accepting this as a good thing.
Former justice’s husband finds love
Does he really find love or just a friend/companion who is at close proximity. Also, as people fall deeper into Alzheimer’s, they forget the people they knew most recently. This lady may remind him of someone he knew in his former years. Or she may remind him of Sandra. I think it’s very unthoughtful of the media to make such a big deal of it and to write it up this way. My mom thought someone else in the nursing home was my dad for awhile. (My dad had passed away several years before.) She got very annoyed with this man because he wasn’t polite. Mother kept telling him to be nicer to people and called him by my dad’s name. But I didn’t make a big deal of it and soon Mother passed to another stage of Alzheimer’s and forgot all about him.
I agree, it’s not really that he’s found “love” with another woman in the same way that a non-Alzheimer’s person might. The media just can’t handle coverage of something without sensationalism.
Thanks for stopping by, Gloria, and sharing your thoughts. I wrote some more about this topic on Alzheimer’s Notes:
The John and Sandra Day O’Connor Alzheimer’s Story (http://www.alzheimersnotes.com/the-john-and-sandra-day-oconnor-alzheimers-story/) and “Romantic” Attachments Not Uncommon for Alzheimer’s Patients (http://www.alzheimersnotes.com/romantic-attachments-not-uncommon-for-alzheimers-patients/). However, because the O’Connors are such a prominent couple, the story made the national media and was given a rather sensational slant.
i think that the fact that Sandra found love is very sweet.