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Dementia is serious coping with it doesn't have to be
It’s been a shocking 993 days since my last post. (Thank you all for staying with me, and a special thanks to those who’ve subscribed recently.) So much has happened in that L-O-N-G length of time. My beloved stepdad, Colonel Curtis D. Fish, died from complications brought on by dementia. Then my dear friend, Bonnie, who suffered from early onset dementia, died. Then my friend, Roberta, who also suffered from dementia, died. That’s 3 people since my mom died of dementia in 2014. But given that there are approximately 46.8 MILLION people worldwide living with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia, I guess this isn’t surprising. But it sure is unacceptable. In fact, dementia in all its forms is beyond unacceptable. So how do we learn to accept it?
My mom’s favorite movie had to be “Sound of Music.” It always seemed to be on Sunday nights, so we’d race home from church to watch it. Those songs are like my childhood soundtrack. So, […]
Idioms are a funny thing. You hear them all your life, never really thinking about them much. Then an expression’s used in a context that stops you, well, dead in your tracks. In the last […]
Part of the One Brave Cowgirl Creed is: “It Is What It Is.” Frankly, believing that when it comes to dementia (or any part of life, for that matter) is sometimes like pushing a mule […]