In Loving Memory Bracelet

When my last living grandma recently passed away, I was surprised - I didn't tear up when I heard the news as much as I thought I would. Grandma had been struggling with severe dementia for quite some time and, somehow, I ended up being the person she would get upset at the most. My dad, knowing that these things she was saying weren't true, would listen to my grandma's stories, then relay them back to me.At first, it was hurtful, to say the least. But as time went on, I became ok with it as my dad and I would try to make light of such a dark time - and to be honest, some of the made up things she was upset with me about were actually pretty funny.At my grandma's funeral, I kept it together through the ceremony, then we walked next door with my family for the reception. And that's when I lost it.... ah just thinking about what I want to write here makes my cry...Dementia is a cruel disease - it's one that seems to steal those last years with the people we love in a way that's not obvio