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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Safety is a fleeting thing and we don’t feel quite as safe as we did, but at the same time the cause of our feelings is a victim of the Continue Reading →
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For a while, on Christmas Eve, the stranger who sometimes moves into Connie’s mind these went away and she came back…. THERE IS A stranger who creeps into Connie these days. We Continue Reading →
It’s a first Christmas alone and the apartment doesn’t have any Christmas trimmings, but it’s not sad, just different…. THIS IS NOT a sad tale, though it may sound like it. Continue Reading →
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Driving without words on a chilly morning as the leafs fall…. IT WAS CHILLY. Forty-eight degrees, but for Connie, too chilly for a walk. Her internal temperature controls are awry these Continue Reading →
Connie says she is losing it and she is scared. So am I. Week by week it becomes more clear where we are going and neither of us wants to Continue Reading →
Haven’t posted for a while. Blame it on ennui…. Been a while since I posted on this blog. Once upon a time I had plans to make this a semi-weekly or Continue Reading →
I’ve been the caregiver for a while now, but got to thinking what might happen if the tables turned…. I am sitting on the patio chugging water. Omnipaque Oral Solution Continue Reading →
Death came into the memory care unit this morning…. It was quiet this morning in the memory care unit. The day started with a death. It was not unexpected. He Continue Reading →
Around a couple of tables there was a beauty shop and for a while there was a bit of life lost come back for the women and for an old Continue Reading →
Sometimes we all just need somebody, or a few somebodies…… EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY… We have this little group that meets monthly at Connie’s care facility. It’s put together by two Continue Reading →