It is 50 years since the inspirational speech ‘I have a dream‘ by Martin Luther King, and in memory of him, I decided to add this TED talk as my blog today. May El-Khalil is the founder of the Beirut Marathon, and her personal story, and her dream to make one day a year at…
Loss and grief is a normal part of accepting a terminal illness. It is more often associated with death, and this can make the experience of loss in dementia even more difficult, as we don’t accept or validate that what we are going through is a grieving process. Grief after a diagnosis of dementia is…
Yesterday was too much emotion for me to write for NaNoWriMo, and a lot of time needed for being with my sick friend and speaking to doctors and family and friends again. I did not have the emotional or physical energy to even consider writing the 2000+ words required for yesterdays November novel-writing goal. Oh…
Yesterday I really wanted to blog about my very sick hospitalised friend, but to have done so would have meant there would have been no words at all, just tears. Hence the crazed focus on the NaNoWriMo goal in between hospital visits, phone calls and meetings with his other friends. He had another seizure, and…
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