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Gift Giving and it’s mean
What is the definition of “Gift giving”? As it says on merriam-webster.com that a gift is the following 1 a notable capacity, talent, or endowment 2 something voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation 3 the act, right, or power of giving But what does it really mean to give a gift? This…
When I Grow Up
You know as you grow up you have thoughts of when I grow up I want to get married, have kids and get old with your loved ones. If you’re lucky you get everything you wanted when you were thinking when I grow up. The thing they don’t tell you or warn you about is…
What does Dementia look like?
For those who are knee deep in this may think this is a strange question. After my visit today with my loved one this thought of what dementia looks like came to me after looking at a few photos that we took during our visit. With that being said you look at this face and…
Mother’s Day…What does that mean today?
No matter how many Mother’s Day’s you have been through the hardest has to be when you have lost a mother. Now I haven’t lost my mother yet, but the dementia adventure makes you think how close that is versus being further away. My Mother’s Day’s have never been normal per-say. I have two mother’s…
Happy Blessed Easter to you!
On a day like today you might be spending it with family and friends or you can be spending it thinking about the past memories. This Easter I am doing the latter one. Due to unseen circumstances this years Easter is not like what I am use to. One is off to college, one is…
Do you need a Hug?
I know I do. Especially I feel I need a hug more often than I use to. Since I last posted things have changed a bit for my mom. I never thought we would be where we are now on this adventure we call dementia. Mom has been moved to a unit where she can’t…
Once a upon a time . . .
There was this mom and daughter just minding their own business when all of a sudden a big, bad dementia appeared. It attacked the mom and started to make her forget things, from remembering to take meds to what day it was. Now this wasn’t all the time. So the big, bad dementia was good…
Conversations. . .Fake or Real?!?
You may be wondering what I mean by this title. It comes about from a recent visit I had with my mom. We were having a conversation and it lead to an answer of we should do that some time all together. Which in turn would mean a trip somewhere a change in her routine/schedule.…
Looking through the looking glass
As I write the title I think of Alice In Wonderland in how dementia and Alice’s world are some what similar to a point. Recently I received a call from the nursing home letting me know about that my mom is in memory therapy. Reason behind this that she is getting agitated that she is…
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Looking Thru the Lens of Dementia 