Kate Swaffer is committed to meaningful dialogue with a wide range of stakeholders about the critical issues impacting a person living with a diagnosis of dementia and their loved ones,
and striving …
to be inspirational, motivated and positive, loving, adventurous, serious when I need to be; to be courteous, conscientious, courageous, thoughtful, honest, fun-loving, and attentive to detail; to be focused, to try to live an extraordinary life, to wear clean shoes and to use my manners.
I write to stay inspired, to share my thoughts, to remind me of who I really am, and to keep tabs on my life, my thoughts and my philosophies so that later on, I can remember what it is I was thinking or doing. I am creating my own memory bank. For me, the acquired habit of using social media such as Facebook has brought with it a discipline of making the effort to communicate! In fact social media is almost the only way to connect with others these days as few answer their mobile phones, even fewer answer their home phones if in fact they have one, and almost no-one has time for a coffee and a chat any more. It seems we are all too busy with our lives to talk to each other, and so this is my way of staying connected, even if it is just in cyberspace. For now, Creating life with words is my way of staying connected with myself and the rest of the world. Thank you for tuning in.
If you like cooking and eating, you can also wander over to the In The Kitchen Page for the global chat and new recipe added for Kick off 2012 with Project 366 last year. Gluten Free recipes suitable for people with coeliac disease or who are gluten intolerant, and healthy recipes have been showcased. They are now being catalogued on my new blog, In The Kitchen.
I am living every day as if it’s my last, just in case it is. I urge you all to do the same!
Bio: Mother, Daughter, Wife, Friend. Poet, Blogger, Author, Speaker and Chef. BPsych, BA Writing and Creative Communication, Grad Dip in Grief Counselling, Nurse. Advocate and activist for aged and dementia care.
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I have nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award at http://pifuk67.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/very-inspiring-blogger-award/
Thank you for sharing your journey and for being inspiring.
Thank you Patrick xo
I saw your you-tube video and it tugged at my heart. You are doing a wonderful thing by sharing your journey.
Thank you Denise, and for joining me here.
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and sooner or later, I’ll get onto your questions for our Dementia Diaries blog…
Wow, what an interesting life! I wonder if you are an gemini like I am – never content with doing just one thing?
Cancerian, but just as interested in doing new things!
I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award! Please feel free to accept or do nothing as you wish. Keep on writing!
http://frangipanisingaporenicum.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/versatile-blogger-award/
I am paying it forward and awarding the versatile blogger award to you.
You deserve it!
~ Miss Kitty Roads
(http://misskittyroads.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/versatile-blogger/)
Hi Kate, I know this is a very small token in comparison to what you’re sharing on this incredible blog, but I would like to nominate you for Versatile Blogger Award (http://sallypanayiotou.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-versatile-blogger/ )
Thank you Sally. I have been awarded this before, but always find it very difficult to follow all the rules, so will now have another go at it! Glad you like my blog, and for showing me to yours, which I can keep up with now that I know about it. I really like the way you have themed it too.
Dear Kate, I shall follow your blog with interest. You have accepted your diagnosis early, and are not in denial. Wonderful! You are able to express what you see from what I would call “that side”. I may be able to understand my Joanna’s thinking as she progressed. I could only ever read her expressions, because verbal skills disappeared early. I have read a lot on Alzheimers, and tried to relate it to our experience. There are a lot of myths there. The journey begins a long time before awareness and diagnosis. Keep that brain working hard! Never relax! Jeff.
Dear Jeff, I have just re-read this and realise now how long you have been following my journey. I also apologise for not responding to you at the time you wrote this. Strangely, it feels like we know each other now, and I would miss your regular feedback! Take care, and thank you once again for your support and encouragement. I did take your advice… I still don’t relax too much!! Kate