Posted 9-10-19, which, like the next several days, is the same forward as backward….a palindrome) Yesterday was another pretty good day for mom. She is sleeping/resting much more these days, so much so that my sister, her daughter and her daughter’s little boy visited yesterday at a time mom would usually be awake, only to…
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Billows Part 2: Count Your Blessings
Posted 9-4-19 Yesterday we discussed how vast and powerful God is as we discussed the word Billows as found in the old song “Love Lifted Me”. Nothing is beyond Him, whether it be an Alzheimer’s cure/treatment, or a future home in heaven! He will part seas as necessary. Today we move to the second song…
Doodling the Days Away: Mom, the Creative One
Posted 8-30-19 Hi all! Welcome back to the Digital Cornbread table this threshold day of the long Labor Day weekend! Be careful out there on the roads this weekend! I am going to revisit one aspect of mom today that I have addressed before, but if you are to know her, you need this one:…
Just Smellin’ in the Rain
Posted 8-22-19 It is raining today in the Ozarks. In some seasons it rains quite a bit here, but late summer we are prone to decent stretches without the wet stuff. One thing I find interesting is rain smells and the sometimes lack thereof. Regardless of the science of smell, of which a lot can…
Walking and Surveying Losses in the Trenches
Posted 8-15-19 It has been a pretty rough month already. Three more have passed away in the last week or so, including a latecomer to the Sweet 17 ( at least 2 of dementia complications and the third likely probably did too although something else gets the blame for his passing). Multiply her little nursing…
How to Visit your Own Sweet 17 Loved Ones
Posted 8-9-19 Yesterday’s mini birthday party for mom was nice. We all gathered around and sang Happy Birthday to her (with her joining in) over a cupcake, likely the highlight of the time for mom. Our big bash is Saturday where over 20 will be there including friends and family. We will all be wearing…
Mom, the Babysitter
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…
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…
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:…
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…