Posted 7-29-19 In the realm of things to bring up about my mom, I often forget to bring up the little things she did to help my family in its early days. You know it when you see it, the mom/grandma stuff. Babysitting comes to mind. Dozens and dozens of times mom drove to our…
Author: Mark Applegate
Throwin’ My Hands Up…but NOT Like I Just Don’t Care
Posted 7-26-19 I really wish I was writing this little piece with some breakthrough hypothesis and with promises that I will follow up 24/7 with grant requests, fundraising, etc…because I figured out a way to make dementia not suck. No such luck. Dancing around the stages of grief as we are, I/we get grandiose ideas…
Sooooo Cute
Posted 7-24-19 Sorry for the brief articles this week. I am completely booked with work and family, but this cuteness topic NEEDS to be investigated further. I started this little discussion yesterday in a piece about the big eyes in my mom’s wall decorations and how much she loved cute things. I want to lead…
Those Big Eyes
Posted 7-23-19 Mom’s new room is being decorated this week. In her current condition, really loves cute things. I mean, we all do, but mom has a special joy that she finds when she sees things with exaggeratedly cute features. My sis is bringing a Hello Kitty blanket and she put a bunch of super-cute…
Pet Peeves
Posted 7-22-19 Anybody else out there at the Digital Cornbread table have a pet peeve? You know, that thing that reaaallly bugs you when you see it in the wild? Well, unfortunately for my character, I have as many pet peeves as Adrian Monk has phobias. Here are just a few that come to mind:…
Mephistopheles is Not Your Name
Posted 7-19-19 Oh the joys of nature! I love a pretty sunset, the sound of a Hoot Owl or a smell of freshly-cut grass like the next guy, but sometimes nature is downright inconvenient! Today is a good example. I have to work from home today because the rental of which we call our humble…
Storytime :)
Posted 7-18-19 My brain is different than many (Understatement alert!!) As you surely have noticed as you sit at the digital cornbread table, I think and express my thoughts quite often in analogies and little stories. Today is not going to be an exception to this. Story 1: I drive daily on a very busy…
New Faces are Awesome… and Challenging
Posted 7-17-19 Update: Yesterday was pretty uneventful. Mom was happy and ate well. She made a few funny wise-cracks which is always fun. They didn’t always make sense, but neither do mine. 😉 We welcomed a new resident to the Sweet 17 yesterday, a sweet lady I will call Mrs. Pearl since her real initial…
Jail or Ark?
Posted 7-16-19 Building on what I talked about yesterday, a tad, is a memory unit like a prison or is it more like something else? My stepdad loves the nursing home concept for the Sweet 17 and, to a point, for mom. He likens it not to a prison at all, but to an Ark….
The Bird Woman of Alz-catraz
Posted 7-15-19 Pretty uneventful weekend for mom, which, in my book, is just fine. Minus a cure she will not “get better”, as such. There will be good days and there will be bad ones as we hope and pray (!!) for a cure for Alzheimer’s/dementia. I am not giving up. I know cures…and miracles…happen…