Why speak out?

Richard Taylor gently reminded me yesterday of the Abraham Lincoln quote, about only pleasing some of the people some of the time. Thank you. I feel vaguely fragile after another week of taking deeply personal risks by speaking out honestly and receiving more rebukes or disagreement with the way I feel about things. My dear…

Brain blackouts!

Another day of wondering what the hell happened to my brain! It is also a struggle today to be bothered writing a blog, or even getting out of bed. Sometimes I jump out of bed early as that is the only way to stay motivated to keep on with fighting against dementia, even though it would…

Back Up Brain vs Carer

Recently I gave a second nickname to my DH (dear husband!), which is BUB, or Back up Brain and we find this terminology far easier to live with than carer. We think of a back up brain as being the same as the hard drive in a computer. He said recently, it empowers him to be by my side and with me,…