One of the hardest things in life is how a family member does not recognize their loved ones. The sick are losing their faculties, they forget if they have eaten, if they have slept, if they are cold or hot. It's really seeing how they languish. His gaze is losing meaning, he focuses on the ground. Getting them to talk is becoming more and more expensive. It is called Alzheimer's and it is the disease that David Bisbal did not want to show in an exciting video that is circulating on social networks.
“Do you know who I am?” the singer asks his father. Silence. “They told me that you were a boxer,” he adds. First response: “And the good ones”, he does remember her passion. Bisbal, already accustomed to the disease, knows how to treat it: “My father was also a boxer.” “What name did he have?” he asks her. “José Bisbal Carillo,” answers the son. “That's me,” says Don José. “Of course, that's you. It's just that you are my father. You just don't remember me. I know you don't remember me but I do remember you," says the artist.
The brain of these patients is not capable of recognizing their children or grandchildren, but it is able to recover that long-term memory to remember some detail from their youth, a poem or a song. Bisbal's father does not know who David is or why he is there, next to him, but he does maintain the lyrics of “Oh Almería, Almería noble land / source of inspiration…”.
No family chooses that one of their own may fall ill with Alzheimer's or senile dementia. Nobody chooses to have a dependent at home or have to move them to a residence. Some see regression in the patient and others experience bad fortune one morning or one unfortunate afternoon. We must speak clearly: the system in Spain is not prepared for someone with few resources to care for a dependent.
David Bisbal is lucky in this sense, but there are thousands and thousands of families who are not. That is why it is essential to increase, along with research, investment in care. Shield her. In short, do not add more suffering to the burden of seeing a father or mother in this situation.
It is not normal for collecting a dependency benefit to take more than a year and a half of procedures. If Spain wants to be a first division country, it must take care of how it deserves those who gave us everything to be what we are.
