I really want a Like button on the comments my readers make on my blog posts. These days I simply do not have the mental energy to respond to every single comment, which was once a goal of mine. But there are so many comments I like, I would like to hit the Like button! And in…
I’ve been reminded over the weekend (thanks Mandy S) of a woman called Anne Davis Bastings, author of a wonderful book Forget Memory. Mandy also alerted me to Anne’s TimeSlip’s Creative Storytelling program and I recommend you have a look. There is another version of this type of storybook called Storybird and the poem created…
Some days seems just like this… every way you turn, someone or something seems to be holding you back. It’s probably quite rare that the ginger cat pictured here, is happening to you. We are usually the only ‘thing’ that is holding us back from achieving our dreams, from being contented and happy, from having good…
As the symptoms of dementia seem to be progressing, the one thing that seems significant to me right now is my inability to keep up with a conversation, especially over the telephone as the visual clues are missing. It is easy for me to say yes or no reasonably appropriately, but not so easy to…
Yesterday I found this fabulous picture from saatchi.uk, and then added the words with a little help from two of the boys in my family (!), as find it perfectly matched with the union of the image and words. Living with dementia means it is sometimes quite hard to look in the mirror, as what…
A very short blog today, as I am too angry to write something constructive. If I posted what I have written so far, it would be unfair to myself, and possibly to some others. But suffice to say, it is about yet another instance of a person with dementia being made to look incapable of being…
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