Tag: Health
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Journal Entry
I know that I have been quiet, but there has been lot going on in my life, Some I can write about, and some that I cannot write about, but I will take some time to write about what I can write about. I am 28 miles north of Charleston, South Carolina. The ocean is…
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Journal Entry – Good News – Good News
It was a cloudy day here today, but still wet from all of the rain the last couple of days. The high was 71 degrees. I had Bible Study this evening, so I will keep this Journal entry short. As I have previously stated, I enrolled in the executive section of the Mayo Clinic care…
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Journal Entry – Mayo Clinic
Here in Rochester it was raining all day with the high temperature at 58 degrees. Not really a nice day, but I was inside all day long. When I looked at what the Mayo Clinic calls their portal on my I Pad this morning, it stated that I had 18 appointments in the next seven…
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Dementia – I Want to Go Home
When I first herd this statement I was perplexed, since I was in the home of a dementia love one. If I was in a nursing home and a loved one made this statement, I would just figure that they wanted to go back home. After a little research, I found out that this is…
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Dementia – Adult Children’s Perspective
I have heard is stated may times: dementia is very hard on the adult children of a parent diagnosed with dementia. When the adult children thinks about their parent stricken with dementia, they still remember their parent a young, vibrant, caring, and cognitive. But, when an other person sees a dementia person, they see an elderly…
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Dementia – Living in Fear
While I was living in Iowa, I was viewing my mom’s dementia from an arm’s reach, without any details in the disease itself. People would state that the dementia people got frustrated by what they could not do anymore. As I saw the situation at the time, it was like they had lost enough gray matter to…
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Dementia – For a Year and Half
It has been over a year since I moved in with mom, and it has been an experience, but not all negative, Mom has made a tremendous change in her demeanor. When I got there, she was all defensive and combative, and now she is more complacent, but still stuck in her ways. As a…
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Journal Entry – Dementia – They Can Still Love
It seems like every day is a copy of the previous day: overcast, mild winds, and the temperature is 30 degrees plus or minus. Once again, thinking about dementia. Hope that this essay makes the point. Roger Dementia – They Can Still Love Although it seems like mom is in the late stages of Stage 4…
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Journal Entry
A cousin reminded me today that I have not been journaling much lately, since she enjoyed reading about my mom’s journey with dementia. That is a sad topic of discussion, since the brain continues to deteriorate as time goes on… Therefore, I will cover a little of my. mom’s dementia. The awareness of dementia is a topic…
Deflection 