The symptoms of dementia seem to be regularly washing some of my abilities away, as if at sea, and many of them never quite return. These changes mean I am constantly revising my Bucket list, as some of the things I once wanted to do, are no longer dementia friendly, and some things no longer…
This blog is a rambling exploration of unconditional love and its impact on our life. We’ve all heard songs and seen movies about unconditional love, and can read about it in thousands of self-help books. But, one wonders what is unconditional love? We all want to feel loved. We think about it, many yearn for it,…
Zen Gardner posted this interesting article Don’t look for answers – find the questions and in it I found this wonderful quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, “Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience…
In an article by Jeff Goins titled The purpose of pain, his final comments are; “Something transformational happens when we go to places of deep pain and let our hearts be stirred. Compassion, a word of which I am quite fond, literally means “to suffer with.” It would make sense that compassion needs pain to…
I’ve been following a blog written by a victim of the sex trade, and I find her writings insightful, sad and incredibly brave. In one of her blogs, she talked about Biderman’s Chart of Coercion, and how it could be applied to sex workers. I’ve been reading about it, and thinking about it a lot…
There are many days when I talk to others with dementia who tell me about how they feel when people don’t believe they have dementia, or who say things like you aren’t any different to me, or I can’t see any signs of dementia in you, and so on. It is demoralising and ends up…
I’m with Socrates on this, as it seems to me that real knowledge is about knowing that you don’t really know anything. I do a lot of thinking about my thinking, and am constantly delving into the recesses of my mind to try to…
‘Passive-competitive’ is a term I must have invented as I have not been able to find in the text books, and not even on Mr Google. ‘Passive-aggressive’ is a common and well known term written up on Mr Google and in many text books, and if you have ever had anyone in your life who…
… I just don’t get them! A blog follower who signed up to my blog last year has them. Almost all of the staff at the nail salon I go to have them, except the owner of the salon who is like me, and is most definitely not into them! We talked about it at…
Well, it has come to this… I can no longer manage my medications. Even passing over the control of the scripts to my pharmacist and doctor last week is not enough as this does not prevent me taking the wrong time or days tablets at home, or taking tomorrows as well as today’s tablets, today.…
My blog today is an article written by Bob De Marco, on his blog The Alzheimer’s Reading Room; it is well worth the read, and continues to show his incredible ability to have turned the pain and struggle of his role as a carer for his mother Dotty who passed away in May this year,…
“One of the greatest challenges of our time is what I’d call the quiet crisis, one that steals lives and tears at the hearts of families, but that relative to its impact is hardly acknowledged. We’ve got to treat this like the national crisis it is. We need an all-out fight-back against this disease; one…
Today, I am simply promoting a book I have contributed to, and will advise of the launch at a later date. Here is a snippet of what it says on the flyer: “Learning life from illness stories brings together the stories of fourteen people who have lived with serious illness, either their own of that of…
Following on from my blog yesterday, I have the details of the radio play about dementia, and as it is such a wonderful production, it deserves another plug! Over the last 18 months, ECH has worked very closely with Adelaide based youth theatre company, Urban Myth, firstly to produce a stage play, Also a Mirror,…
Two people in Adelaide met some time ago and had this wild idea of inspiring young people to become involved in the world of dementia and memory loss through drama. One is the Artistic Director or Urban Myth Drama Group, the other works for the ECH Residential Care group in SA. Last year, after almost…
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