Having created the category ‘dementia diaries’ I haven’t been able to fill it with previous entries on the subject. You can find them, however, by scrolling down and clicking on ‘older posts’ at the bottom of each column.
Here’s a list of the posts that were dementia-related this year, the majority are posted under ‘the parrot has landed’ because if you can find the humour in the situation it helps. My father-in-law used to tell a good story about getting ready to go out with his wife, who had Alzheimer’s. He was trying to give her a shower with a hand-held shower unit. It took a very long time; he had to chase her up and down the bath because she was running into the house, out of the rain. It was funnier if you knew that she was tall and thin and up, in a bath, and he was short and round and tangled up in a bath mat.
Here are the others from this year:
The gift that keeps on annoying.
Louvres.
More thrilling panic.
The Monday morning post.
Care-ful.
Senior holiday memories.
More sayings.
Sayings.
Mad house.
Out of left field.
Seconds out; round two.
The mother of all weekends.
There are older entries for last year, I have been posting on the subject for a year.
Which list, in September, goes to show that dementia hasn’t taken every moment of my waking time, it just feels as if it has. One of the tricks of the trade for the carer is to make sure there are other things in your life. In my life there most definitely are; it’s less than three weeks to Miniatura. I am planning to be there, I am working towards it whenever there is a spare moment, though not today, I’m off to do the shopping for my mother and deliver it a day early, because tomorrow I have to go and have a camera down my neck to see how the stress is mangling my Barrett’s oesophagus.
It’s a matter of complete amazement that some people visit the show because they’d be bored otherwise.
Boredom? Boredom? No sorry, haven’t a clue. I’ll look it up in the dictionary when I get a minute.
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