A Family's Journey Through Dementia
A Trip We Didn't See Coming and Didn't Want to Take, But Here We Are….
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Mother Nature dropped by to tell me that just wasn’t so…. I THINK MOTHER Nature has stepped in to help me adjust to all the changes going on since Connie passed Continue Reading →
SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS as time goes by.. Grief is tiring and it is up and down. I have had a busy two weeks since Connie passed, what with arranging estate stuff for Continue Reading →
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THE DEMENTIA JOURNEY has ended, in a physical sense, but in a literal sense I don’t know that it ever will. It will stay with me in my mind. It may fade Continue Reading →
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CONNIE’S JOURNEY ended peacefully this morning, April 19, 2026 at around 1:30 a.m. I had a feeling yesterday evening so stayed at the memory care unit in the recliner next to Continue Reading →
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“MAYBE THREE days,” the hospice nurse said. Connie’s vitals have started to drop and her breathing is changing. She has not eaten anything for three days and in the days before Continue Reading →
Waiting. What to say? How to wait on the death of the loved one doesn’t come with a handbook. Some tips maybe, a bit of advice but in the end, Continue Reading →
https://youtube.com/shorts/bnh5aNnCvLc I COULD HEAR Julia singing before I got to Connie’s unit. The soft and light voice, the strumming of the guitar. Julie comes once a week to sign to Connie, Continue Reading →
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LINGERING: To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually. It is a word I have come to hate as I sit by Connie’s bed Continue Reading →
When death’s coming gives you time there are things you can do, plans you can make that will help give you peace when it is over.. THERE ARE THINGS to do Continue Reading →
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Our hospice nurses have told us Connie is transitioning and the end most likely is near and good-byes are so, so hard DO YOU WANT to stay, I asked Connie last Continue Reading →