Posted 4/30/20 Hi all! Happy 48th day of being “in the hole”, Shawshank-style…a.k.a. in lock down from getting to visit loved ones in nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities. You may be plus or minus a little in the number of days, but you certainly feel the same pain. What particularly saddens me is the…
Author: Mark Applegate
Christian, husband, and dad...and a workplace chiropractic geek and cornbread chef on the side. I am also happily the Director of Systems Alignment for the SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging.
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 47: Rest
Posted 4-29-20 Howdy all! A heart-filled Hump Day to each of you! What a month it has been! Between working from home several days a week, working around 65-70 hours a week keeping up with disaster planning for 17 counties/10,000 square miles, also serving as I.T. Director for said counties, serving alongside friends at the…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 46: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Posted 4-28-20 No time for a number post today! 🙁 Just a quick post today as I am jam packed with scheduling today. Yesterday, at 3pm, our Governor Parson announced his Show Me Strong Recovery Plan. Under this plan, most businesses will be allowed to open freely, but with social distancing guidelines in place. One…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 45: Is He Going to Stop at # 427? Nope.
Posted 4/27/20 Hi ho, merry old souls! Happy Monday, 4/27 to you! While I have about 12 or 13 articles started on other topics related to memory diseases, I am going to fiddle around with numbers a little more. I am still keeping track on the Shawshank Redemption Re:Dementia days because it helps (?) to…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 42: The Famous Number 424
Posted 424 (to the fancy, this is called 4/24/20) Welcome to Friday! Or as we used to think of it, the weekend! Woot!!! Get out your shoehorns with me…we are going to plow through some number references in our little number series and lard them up into some thoughts about dementia again today. 🙂 Off…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 41: The Number 423
Posted 4/23/20 We go marching on this fine Thursday, amongst the madness of today’s life and within the confines of my little series on numbers banging around in my head. 🙂 Today, my Number Du Jour is 4/23, or Gregorian calendar’s very own April 23rd. I shall reduce said date to its simplest format: 423….
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 40 Days and 40 Nights: A ReRun
Posted 4-22-20 Since we have been on the topic of numbers for a few days and since the pandemic is wearing me out time-wise…and since over 6,000 folks have joined in the last several months, I propose to you the following reruns, both number-oriented: and Update: Mom is still the same. I have another Facetime…
Support Group Details
Posted 4/21/20 Here is the info for the Zoom tonight at 6pm on the interwebs: Topic: Alzheimer’s Support Group Zoom MeetingTime: Apr 21, 2020 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Click on this link into Chrome/Firefox/Edge to join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81022007865… If you need to use a telephone to get the audio, here…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 39: (19)84
Posted 4*21/2020 Did I mention I was a numbers guy? Oh yes…the last 3 posts (Link Link Link ) were little spins on numbers. Why not call it a series and do it again today??? I have never been one to worry about beating dead horses, so why not? Did you notice that if you…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 38:Vision
Posted For 20/20 Hi all! Happy Monday to you!! Day 38 of being locked out from the nursing home…with mom in “the hole”. I don’t blame them at all, but it is very sad. 🙁 Today is 4/20, a date that means little to most …unless you study history and know that Hitler’s birthday was…