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Do You Speak Dementia?

by Carol Fant on January 31, 2014 · Comments: 6

This picture of the old switchboard room looks like utter chaos:  lines crisscrossing everywhere, 1000s of possible connections, people frozen in time.  If we could listen in, we’d hear a jumble of voices, but it’d […]

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Hank Williams, Dr. Pepper & Dementia

by Carol Fant on January 22, 2014 · Comments: 6

I’ve had an old Hank Williams’ song running through my head for days: “Well, why don’t you love me like you used to do?  How come you treat me like a worn out shoe?” I figured […]

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Putting On My Big Girl Panties

by Carol Fant on January 15, 2014 · Comments: 4

I saw my doctor last week for a physical, and had to get a shot.  I haven’t had a shot since I was, I don’t know, 12. When the nurse came in with the needle, […]

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When Giant Lizards Attack

by Carol Fant on January 8, 2014 · Comments: 5

I recently watched a Teepa Snow video in which she discussed the first symptoms of dementia.  The comment she made that struck me was that you didn’t recognize it as dementia then, but looking back, you […]

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Wanted: One Giant Panda

by Carol Fant on January 3, 2014 · Comments: 2

I so wanted to write one of those “shiny happy people holding hands” New Year’s messages.  One of those posts you’d save for the rest of your life, pull out even on Columbus Day, because […]

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Dementia Manners 101: An Aunt Clara Tutorial

by Carol Fant on December 19, 2013 · Comments: 6

I was talking to a friend yesterday when we both went into one of those “I can’t remember” moments.  Sadly, I don’t even remember what we didn’t remember.  But she laughed and said she felt […]

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10 Promises You Need To Make Me Now – In Case I Get Dementia Later

by Carol Fant on December 11, 2013 · Comments: 6

Listen up, people.  I have some things I need to say now, in case I get dementia later.  I won’t be able to tell you these things then, so let’s get this over with.  I […]

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Laughter Makes You Brave

by Carol Fant on December 3, 2013 · Comments: 0

I can just look at this picture of the Cowardly Lion and chuckle.  And if I listen to his courage speech or his King of the Forest song, then I’m pretty much guaranteed to laugh […]

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Crystal Ball Seer Seeks Meaningful Employment

by Carol Fant on November 27, 2013 · Comments: 2

I love a good carnival.  Roller coasters, crystal ball seers, that creepy guy running The Himalayan ride who won’t let you off the damn thing even though you beg for mercy as you fly by […]

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Embrace the New Normal, My Ass

by Carol Fant on November 21, 2013 · Comments: 6

There’s a scene in the Clint Eastwood classic, “Pale Rider,” where one of the cowboys exclaims (after witnessing Eastwood’s “Preacher” character whoop up on the bad guys): “Preacher, my ass!”  That’s how I feel today […]

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I’m Carol Fant, Chief Reality Officer of One Brave Cowgirl. I got that title after living with my mother’s Alzheimer’s for six years, and figuring out I had a choice: be sad and in despair 24/7, or learn to lighten up and see the gifts dementia could bring me. That’s my preferred reality, and I hope to share that with you.

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