Sometimes living in the now is made difficult by not being able to remember our past, or our future plans. Although the positive psychology movement and motivators may say ‘make the best of what you have’, which is a great mantra and I aspire to all the time, it isn’t always easy to live with not being able…
Carpe Diem – Living Life to the Fullest My Story I’m often asked if I can pin-point when the dreadful disease of Frontotemporal Lobe Dementia (FTD) slithered into my life and began to attack my brain. I don’t know. When I look back, it was about the year 2007 when I began to make serious…
I’ve been reading a novel called Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy, which it turns out others confirm I have already read but no matter, it was a pleasant light read, and not too many words to have to look up! And it was so light, it didn’t matter that often I couldn’t remember the story…
Recently I have written a lot of blogs about what is means from a personal perspective to lose ones memory or ability to recall, so thought I’d add a simple explanation of memory loss in dementia, from the Alzheimer’s Australia website. “One of the main symptoms of dementia is memory loss. We all forget things…
The changes brought on by dementia are relentless, yet most people don’t see them as disabilities just as external symptoms. Many also think it is a mental illness, which it is not. The word Dementia is taken from Latin, originally meaning madness; no wonder we struggle against the myths! And so, we are regularly defined…
When we are born, we cry to be fed, cuddled and loved, or have our nappies changed. Then we start to crawl and walk, and ultimately have to remember how to do it. It’s not long before our parents start reading to us, hoping it will make us intelligent. Then comes the books for us to…
Remember when is the beginning of so many conversations when meeting with friends or family whom you have shared moments with. At family reunions, school reunions, reunions with colleagues, and so on, all rely heavily on memory for you to be able to fully participate. Another one so often spoken is, don’t you remember, for…
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…
TED says of speaker and writer Joshua Foer, “In 2005 science writer Joshua Foer went to cover the U.S. Memory Championship. A year later he was back — as contestant. A year of mental training with Europe’s top memorizer turned into a book, Moonwalking with Einstein, which is both a chronicle of his immersion in the memory…
The dementia is giving me the shits today (26/11/11), I feel like giving in to that bloody PLOM disease – yes, Poor Little Old Me! Fuck it, why shouldn’t I give in to it? Why shouldn’t I have an hour, a day, a week, or month of feeling like this? Well, a few moments or…
Someone recently suggested I blossomed outward like a flower working hard to bloom in the middle of a drought. I am not sure I have the emotional strength to do that every day, if in fact that is what I am doing. It is a lovely thought though, and those words inspire me to keep trying.…
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