Dementia, blogging, reading and a terminal illness

I’m in the process of setting up a blog roll of other blogs and websites that are interesting and useful, and am constantly coming across new posts or blogs I want to read, and then share. Today is one of those days as I want to share two (well, really a few) posts (the first…

Facing terminal illness

With the diagnosis of a terminal illness, mortality gets to sit at your table, right next to the knife and fork, up close and personal, whispering messages that you might die much sooner than you thought. You do not get to continue to view death from the large platform called life, but from the edge of…

Maybe it’s not dementia?

So often, that is the question many people with dementia ask themselves. It is also the phrase many others say to you, as it seems it is so difficult to believe a person diagnosed with dementia can function well in the world. The only way to know 100% that someone has dementia is with a…

Authentic in spite of dementia

If we are not being what we say we are, then we are not authentic, or as Robyn Moore (The Power of The Word) would say, we are  being a fraud! Some days, dementia makes me feel as if I am not being authentic to myself, as I start towards a new thought or a new project, then…

Dementia: an untrendy terminal illness…

Yes, this is what it is. Dementia is the current untrendy terminal illness. Most people don’t realise or accept it is an incurable illness, but rather a disease that just robs us of our brain function, turns us into lunatics! It is not unlike being diagnosed with cancer, but without the ongoing support, without the…