Posted 10-14-19 I have been in a more reflective mood the last week or two as mom “celebrated” her year anniversary of being in full-time memory care. Thinking through (Friday) the hereditary nature of some forms of dementia made me even more reflective. I am just 17 years away from being the same age that…
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It’s My Tohweenn!
Posted 10-11-19 As we start year 2 of mom living in the nursing home, I feel kind of introspective. We live in such an amazing time these days in terms of being able to record our lives for our posterity. While this can be a curse, it can also be a tremendous blessing. Below is…
One Year + a Million Thanks
Posted 10-10-19 as pulled from the home page of digitalcornbread.com written in March of 2019 (is it too early to reminisce?): The Cambridge Dictionary defines a vicissitude as “changes that happen at different times during the life or development of someone or something, especially those that result in conditions being worse.” Example: Losing is going…
Day 364
Posted on Nursing Home Anniversary Eve, 10/9/19 It has been a long year for mom. She has rode the dementia roller coaster day-in and day-out for a year minus one today. Part of me feels like it has been a tremendously long year and another part of me feels like it has flown by. It…
Hard on the Eyes
Posted 10-8-19 Have you heard of the almost catcall phrase “He (or she) isn’t hard on the eyes”? Maybe that is a generational, sexist pig statement (although it could be said about either gender), but the idea is that it is an odd form of complement by saying the person is pleasing on the eyes,…
The Fall of the Hypothalamus
Posted 10-7-19 I love Fall in the Ozarks! A couple days ago it was 90+ degrees…and really had been for the entire month of September. We typically are at least 10-15 degrees cooler than that, a fact not missed by yours truly who drives Tempo One to work every day sans air conditioning. The last…
Stuck
Posted 10-4-19 Stuck They are damsels in distress Wandering all day and all night Life’s in limbo, in constant duress. Such is the life of the Sweet 17, Not here, not gone, but stuck somewhere in between. It wasn’t always this way, In years gone by, things were all right Families, grand kids, bedrock… no…
I Want to Hold Your Hand
–or– The Therapeutic Value of a Kind Touch Posted 10-3-19 “I Want To Hold Your Hand” Oh yeah, I’ll tell you somethingI think you’ll understandThen I’ll say that somethingI wanna hold your handI wanna hold your handI wanna hold your hand Oh please, say to meYou’ll let me be your manAnd please, say to meYou’ll…
Are You Sure You Don’t Have Dementia?
Posted 10-2-19 The flip side of yesterday’s article “Are You Sure You Have Dementia” actually secretly begs the same question as today’s. Do you know one way or another? While this may be a less satisfying article from a new content perspective, this topic is crucial to one of the key concepts I shoot to…
Are You Sure You Have Dementia??
Posted 10-1-19 So, if you have read the previous 300+ posts about dementia, many of them have scared you more than the thought of sharing an old cabin with talking dolls, clowns with red balloons, or that dude with the knife fingers. You may or may not have considered the possibility that you will eventually…