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I know its a gradual process but no one really sees it coming and you are in the middle of "life" when it happens. What kinds of things had ...

Hi....I just wanted to toss this out there. Before this, I have never had a dog of my own; the dog we had as a family when I was young was m...

I am sure caregivers here will give me sixty kinds of grief over this but I can only relate to the world around me as my brain allows. And s...

Hey Kids, this is short and sweet, not heavy. Just the other day I noticed I have developed this new habit that is really weird, and yet ste...

My good friend Randy, fellow traveller on the USS Dementia, sent me a link the other day to an Alzheimers article on the use of VR to help d...

With the often hectic pace of everyday life and the added tension of chronic illness, it's often difficult to see much else than the negativ...

Doesn't happen often but I think there is a Murphy's Law that states all the weird people come to my door when I am the only one to answer i...

This is a thank you note. Sometimes people have things happen to them that changes their life; it can be something horrible, scarring them f...

I am beginning to realize that one of the hardest and more constant battles anyone with progressive dementia has to face and overcome is fig...

So in 4 weeks all I will be participating in the 2017 Memory walk. This is close to my heart as my father is living with vascular dementia. ...

And it has to do with balance. Determining and maintaining a balance between rest and activity. You see. I'm finding that following a lot of...

You know how it is...you are trying to talk to your neurologist and the situation is one that can only be saved by a comedian. First, the ir...

No I am not speaking of wills and things that center around *that* end. I mean once we (the progressives) progress beyond the MCI stage, tha...

I have had a this headache in the back of my head from 10 july when i was playing football and suddenly while pushing my self forward i felt...

One of the parts of LBD thats coming up for all of us at one point or

another is the loss of ability to communicate in a meaningful

way. Being...

Yes, social diseases can be terminal ....but terminal diseases can be social, too.

Hey kids. I know much of what I have posted has been kinda grim but remember, these are grim subjects. That said, anyone who knows me knows ...

Greetings. This is a sort of a continuation of a conversation another LBD buddy and I have had. It seems like we learn more about our mutual...

Posting this to maybe explain why my earlier posts looked so bad/hard to read. It is the result of how I am forced to work with a computer t...

Update: I originally wrote this a little ways back. All of it still applies but I needed to (re)post this so that what I post next will make...

hello, im new here, i am 52 and have a memory clinic app next week, id like to know what to expect? i was refered here by my gp as the test ...

I wish the world would make more sense

or

Is it them or is it us?

Caveat: The absolutely-bizarre nature of trying to write something of

worth wh...

Greetings to one and all. My name is Jeff. I feel lucky to have at

last landed someplace where folks might know what I am going on about.

I wa...

My granddaughter turns 10 today. She has always been her Poppy's girl, we kind of have a bond. I'm the only grandfather she has ever, or eve...

I have suffering from headache in the back of my head from 1.5 months .... the pain is mild to moderate and thus sometimes becomes severe fo...

Shortly after my father began his journey with dementia, he was visiting my home and I mentioned I was having difficulty removing the residu...

Is anybody in this group taking part in #MemoryWalk17? I am doing mine in 76 days.

If you recall my earlier post of nearly two months ago, I stated I was nearly done with the project I was then involved with. Aw, the folly ...

So my last post I was spinning out of control. I had just moved my mom to a memory care facility. It's been almost 7 weeks since the move. T...

**Warning! This is long!

As many of you know my brother, my only sibling, passed in April. As my mom and dad had already passed, this left me...