Overlooking reality

This morning, I received an email from SF (someone I don’t know), whose first name is the same as a girlfriend SP, and whose last name is the same as my girlfriend’s husband’s first name. My mind played tricks on me, and I saw it as coming from my girlfriend, a not uncommon mistake that…

Dementia, denial, old age and dying

“When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.” – Chief Aupumut (1725), Mohican. My dear husband has worked it out, that is, why I occasionally re-blog or add interesting articles found on the…

Accepting dementia

What is going on? Such a lazy way to start a blog, yet that is how I feel, and that is what we are asking. What is going on? Is the dementia moving in the wrong direction again, or is it that we are travelling and my routines have been out of kilter? Well, those…

Denial and love

Denial is the escape route we take when we distort, disguise or refuse to acknowledge a situation or refuse to recognise or accept the existence of something we don’t wish to face or accept. In the state of denial we persuade ourselves that the particular stress, event or thing we are facing doesn’t exist, and…