In a way, this is how it all started. Years earlier I wrote an article titled Dealing With Adult Parents. At that point, I was starting to notice that Mom’s habits and memory seemed to be changing a bit. It was scary, but I tried putting a positive spin on it; most of us are […]
My mother has always had trouble sleeping. Once she was diagnosed as having dementia that didn’t necessarily change so much. She took a lot of naps during the day, but she wasn’t sleeping through the night. I tried a lot of things to get her to sleep, but nothing seemed to work. If Mom didn’t […]
I wondered if I should share this very personal story. It concerns my mother, who has dementia. I shared it with people in my Facebook dementia group and it turned out to be something that most of them needed to see and greatly appreciated. I decided to share the story, not because I want to […]
My mother has dementia, not Alzheimer’s. At least not yet, since Alzheimer’s can’t be determined until someone passes away. I’m of the opinion that my mother has dementia because she was stressed most of her life, a lot of that before I came around. I know few of the details of what gave Mom stressed […]
It seems that other than January 2017, when I wrote a post a day, I only wrote 6 other posts for the year.. the last one being in November. I wish I had a really good reason for that but I don’t. Still, I’m going to get a bit more personal than I usually do […]
