Posted 3/4/19 Mom seems more alert and awake this morning. She had a good breakfast and we are hoping her shower doesn’t produce a connecting right-hook, left-uppercut combo today. That calls to mind something I may have discussed before: Old memories dying hard and whether that is 100% bad. Mom’s primary memories/emotional responses that she…
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The Buck
Posted 3/3/19 Report on mom wasn’t very good tonight. She was zonked asleep in a chair in the memory unit dining room when my stepdad got there. He wondered if she had been there since lunch. Very tired and, therefore, almost no communication. I hate that. 🙁 Praying she sleeps better tonight so she is…
My Music Theory
Posted 3-2-19 Ok. This is a weird post. Please don’t use the following to evaluate my mental health. You have enough other material for that (my shared memes alone is enough fodder)…give this one a pass. Here it goes: My unusual and unfortunately flawed hypothesis/thought regarding Alzheimer’s patient communication: I wonder if anyone has ever…
Wax On, Wax Off
Posted 3-1-19 Mom’s sleep patterns, compounded by anxiety and constipation, have landed her in bed for a couple days straight. Today we got her up and around for a couple hours. Her neck and back were all kerfritz from laying around so long, so Pam and I played amateur Mr. and Mrs. Miyagis and loosened…
Memory Day!
Posted 2-27-19 Reports are mom had another good day with the Sweet 17 today. She has still untethered sleep and darkness, so who knows whether she will be awake unless I swing by again at 4am? Sundowners is some downer. 🙁 I had a very nice time at Memory Day today at Jefferson City. Met…
Happy Place
Posted 2-26-19 Another good day for mom. 🙂 She still needs to get the sleep worked out again, but all things considered, it could be much worse.Music is mom’s happy place, planted there by the subject of her songs. #EndALZ
Whack Probability
Posted 2-25-19 Mom did pretty well today, but was fading fast toward Slumbersville the second half of my time. Sundowners has her sleep patterns so out of whack that visits during the day are a 50/50 shot whether she will be up and ready for company. Sadly, she was so sleepy that she had a…
Good Day and Some Vids
Posted 2-24-19 Good day for mom yesterday. 🙂 Here are a couple videos from Pam’s visit the day before. 🙂 It is nice to be on a good streak again. I will get to see her either today or tomorrow. #EndALZ
Alzesthesia
Posted 2-22-19 Dateline 1990. I lay semi-slumbered on Dr. Witherspoon’s operating table, dutifully counting backward from 10 to 1 each second in a panic that this anesthesia mask wasn’t working…until I hit about 3 when the lights went out. Wisdom teeth removal surgery isn’t particularly fun, but all things were going exactly as the consult…
Bitter Pill to Swallow
Posted 2-21-19 The idiom dictionary in Writingexplained.org traces the modern usage of the term “bitter/hard pill to swallow” most clearly to 1730’s French historian Rapin Thoyras although tangent uses of pills being a challenge predate even that. Thoyras blurted “This event, which happened the 7th of September, N.S. was immediately follow’d by the relieving of time after,…