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Ambassador•5 years ago

Unfortunately, I seem to have hit another bump in the road concerning my writing skills. And it's making me feel as though I'm letting both my family and the...

Me and my blank mind

Unfortunately, I seem to have hit another bump in the road concerning my writing...

Ambassador•5 years ago

Where has my life gone? The one that Karen and I had always planned for as we reached our "Golden Years". The one that included our going from college...

Living the life given you

Where has my life gone? The one that Karen and I had always planned for as...

As I’ve mentioned before, I love sitting outside on the deck, listening to the fountain on the lake, feeling the gentle breezes cross my face, hearing the...

Ambassador•5 years ago

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I’m so glad the deep recesses of my mind are a happy place

As I’ve mentioned before, I love sitting outside on the deck, listening to the f...

Ambassador•5 years ago

As my dementia has progressed my level of anxiety has increased as well. A few years ago nothing bothered me, I worried about little. But now, a trip to the...

Weighted Blankets

As my dementia has progressed my level of anxiety has increased as well. A few y...

Ambassador•5 years ago

How will I handle my death when the time comes? This is a question that occasionally slips into the dark recesses of my mind and makes me even more...

Thinking of my eventual demise

How will I handle my death when the time comes? This is a question that ...

Ambassador•5 years ago

Hey guys, I found this today and thought it important enough to share. Hope it helps someone!...

Article on anesthesia and cognitive impairment

Hey guys, I found this today and thought it important enough to share. Hope it h...

Ambassador•5 years ago

My wife/caregiver, Karen, has had bronchitis for just over a week and is finally starting to improve. This is amazing on so many fronts considering the...

I'll never be able to repay her

My wife/caregiver, Karen, has had bronchitis for just over a week and is fin...

Ambassador•5 years ago

Hello all, this will be a short one. I just wanted to try and trumpet the value of quiet, alone time. For the past several weeks I have been more gone than in...

Nature’s Renewal for Dementia

Hello all, this will be a short one. I just wanted to try and trumpet the value ...

Ambassador•5 years ago

Hey gals and guys, I today I wanted to relay a strange new occurrence, one that’s a bit disconcerting while happening and it’s happened on two distinct...

Are My Eyes Deceiving Me?...Yes!

Hey gals and guys, I today I wanted to relay a strange new occurrence, one that’...

Ambassador•5 years ago

I don't know why but I seem to be following my mother's path through dementia much more closely than my father's....

Reminded of my mother again

I don't know why but I seem to be fol...

Ambassador•5 years ago

Jeff and I feel we are descending into a darkness from which we may not return. This has been going on for months now. I don't believe its a first for Jeff...

Brothers from another mother

Jeff and I feel we are descending into a darkness from which we may not return....

Ambassador•5 years ago

If you know someone with dementia, you may have wondered why they sometimes wander around the house. Why they seem so restless. Why they’re always getting into...

It’s not easy being a houseplant

If you know someone with dementia, you may have wondered why they sometimes wand...

Ambassador•5 years ago

Monday morning started out fairly typically. We had our cereal for breakfast, Karen did a few things around the house, I stayed out of the way as much as...

I don’t know how to help

Monday morning started out fairly typically. We had our cereal for breakfast, Ka...

One of the things that I truly despise about this walk with my unwelcome friend is the many, many things that you have done all your life that you are now...

Ambassador•5 years ago

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Party Time?

One of the things that I truly despise about this walk with my unwelcome friend ...

Ambassador•5 years ago

For the caregivers out there, what do you believe your understanding of the demented persons understanding and feelings during their worst times? I know I...

Do we understand

For the caregivers out there, what do you believe your understanding of the deme...

Ambassador•5 years ago

Of late, my mind has been inundated with analogies for the process demented minds (at least the DBL mind) take on a journey from the genesis of an idea to its...

Analogies

Of late, my mind has been inundated with analogies for the process demented mind...

I remember the look in my mother’s eyes. She was standing in the middle of a grocery store aisle, I had just walked about five feet away to pick something up...

Ambassador•5 years ago

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The Look In My Mother’s Eyes

I remember the look in my mother’s eyes. She was standing in the middle of a gro...

Ambassador•5 years ago

Approximately a year ago, I became aware that I was quickly becoming unable to maintain my own medications. I could no longer reliably parse out the required...

One More Change To Add To The List

Approximately a year ago, I became aware that I was quickly becoming unable to m...

Ambassador•5 years ago

*Disclaimer- this is a post I placed on another site in late ‘16, Early ‘17. I had been going through some of my earlier posts when I came upon this one and...

Feelings of worthlessness (Redux)

*Disclaimer- this is a post I placed on another site in late ‘16, Early ‘17. I h...

Ambassador•5 years ago

Apparently, sometime during the night, I decided to rearrange the plastic containers and lids in our cabinets. I say apparently because as we all arose and...

The Anatomy of Completing A Task While Demented

Apparently, sometime during the night, I decided to rearrange the plastic contai...

Ambassador•5 years ago

I’ve never actually been a person who is moved to tears by random exhibits of love, sadness, fear, etc... I didn’t tear up when Mufassa died, I didn’t weep...

Changes Can be Good

I’ve never actually been a person who is moved to tears by random exhibits of lo...

Ambassador•5 years ago

For approximately the past month or month and a half, I have been in a continual deepening fog. This is not necessarily unusual except for one major...

Emotions

For approximately the past month or month and a half, I have been in a continual...

Ambassador•5 years ago

I had a rather unsettling event occur last night as I was sleeping. As I’ve mentioned before on this site, I have insomnia and spend most of my nights in my...

A Turtle on its Back

I had a rather unsettling event occur last night as I was sleeping. As I’ve ment...

Ambassador•6 years ago

I’ve known for some time, and have written about it several times in posts to this site, that my sense of time was faltering badly. But a couple of incidents...

Time is Slipping

I’ve known for some time, and have written about it several times in posts to th...

Ambassador•6 years ago

This has been a good week. The weather, for the most part, has been warm and beautiful, something that goes a long way toward ensuring I have decent cognitive...

Having A Good Week

This has been a good week. The weather, for the most part, has been warm and bea...

For what it’s worth, I believe the true victims of dementia are those who are caring for loved ones with dementia. Don’t get me wrong, it’s no picnic having...

Ambassador•6 years ago

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Let’s Give Praise To The True Victims Of Dementia

For what it’s worth, I believe the true victims of dementia are those who are ca...

I would like to make today’s post a little different. I don’t want to have the normal this is what I’ve lost recently, not another gloom & doom story....

Ambassador•6 years ago

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Meet Oscar

I would like to make today’s post a little different. I don’t want to have the n...

As some of you may have noticed, or maybe not, that’s neither here nor there, I have been pretty much AWOL from this site for several months. Much of the...

Ambassador•6 years ago

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Old Friends/Keeping Up Appearances

As some of you may have noticed, or maybe not, that’s neither here nor there,...

For the first 58 years of my life I have thoroughly enjoyed eating. To the point that I’ve been obese most of my adult life. Let’s just say I have had very few...

Ambassador•6 years ago

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Entering Another Phase

For the first 58 years of my life I have thoroughly enjoyed eating. To the point...

Ambassador•6 years ago