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…
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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…
Oh Those Moments!
Posted 7-12-19 Hindsight truly is 20-19, isn’t it? I see crystal clearly now many ways mom used to make light of her declining memory and, in advance, start preparing me and the rest of us for where we are now. I can’t say with 100% confidence that she was consciously doing this, but she sure…