Mom started today off waaaaaay better than yesterday. No nausea and she slept well. How she can go so quickly from yesterday’s super-soaker to today’s vocal and pretty happy and walking around? My theory makes me sad. She may have been sick for a couple days and it took the nausea to help her feel…
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What You Don’t Know…
Posted 3-8-19 “So long as I know it not, it hurteth mee not”. According to the The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, this phrase that we translate as “What you don’t know can’t hurt you” originated…wait for it…200 years before the founding of America, in 1576. The citation claims that its sister phrase is “Where ignorance…
KY3 Interview about the Holidays
There is a lot more to say about this topic to be sure.
Looking Back: The First Day in Memory Care
The crestfallen sound of mom saying “Don’t Go!” will reverb in my brain until tomorrow’s return as an echo my refilled joy will drain. Mom’s old stories hooked me like a caught bluegill When I was a wee lad Why didn’t I write them down, they were so real Daily I wish so I had Of exploits in school and living…
Digital Cornbread is Online!
Posted 3/7/19 Www.digitalcornbread.com is my newly forming blog. I am uploading 6 months of Alzheimer’s and caregiving posts this week. I have posted nearly 40,000 words on Alzheimer’s alone since mom was diagnosed. Take a look and give me tips. I am not sold on the template… Thanks all! Mom had a good day…actually got some…
Sweet 17 Today
Posted 3/6/19 When mom first started experiencing more extreme (at the time) symptoms, I was agast. I had never seen an inflicted mom hunting and gathering papers, crayons, jewelry, and pickles in a purse, and I had no point of reference. I had never witnessed the panic walks and the deer in the headlights stares…
Mom’s Still Got it!
Posted 3/5/19 Nice visit with mom today. She was pretty gelatinous when I got there…lying in bed staring weakly and bored out of her skull at the wall. She smiled when I got there and we started the perpendicular polka…in other words, I had to get her sitting up. Slowly but surely, a few bed…
These Things I Remember
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…
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…