Living with an Early-onset Dementia Diagnosis
What is it about carefully designed and crafted plans that makes God say, “Oh yeah? Watch this!” And send your plans spinning on their heads?
Today SHOULD be the day we move M into the long-term care facility I spent days/weeks deciding on. Instead, today is the first day M is spending in the behavioral health unit of a local hospital to be assessed and stabilized. Continue reading “Go Ahead – Make a Plan”
We’re getting there, we’re moving forward, we’re making progress as progress is always made – one step forward and two steps back. Frustrating, but that’s the way it is. Continue reading “Good Days vs. Bad Days. Very Bad.”
What does progress look like?
Decisions made. Forms completed. Appointments scheduled. Progress.
Progress also looks like arguments and people storming out the door. Silent treatments and tears. Understanding and misunderstanding. Continue reading “This Is Progress”
The answer is absolutely NO! I am not having fun. I am not enjoying this one bit. Continue reading “Are We Having Fun Yet?”
This morning has already started with a bang. And it’s only 7:45 am.
M woke me up a few minutes after 7, calling for me to help him. He had another one of those monologues going from his bedroom: “Can you please help me? I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. Continue reading “A Miserable Weekend”
Ever get one of those phone calls that makes you think ‘why did I answer the phone’? M’s memory care daycare center called me with one yesterday and I’m still thinking about it. Continue reading “Riding the Storm Out”
I can’t believe I’ve been working at the new job for two weeks now! I’m one of very few employees who actually go to the office every day – most of the employees are still working from home. I could do that, too, but with M’s “work” just down the road, it makes more sense for me to be at the office. Continue reading “I’d Rather Go to Disney World”
Loving the new job!! It’s going really well – although I hate those days, right at the beginning, when you don’t know where things are and it takes you five times as long as it normally would to do anything. I’ve always thought, I wish there was a way I could just open my brain and pour the knowledge I need in there. Continue reading “Where IS That Other Girl?”
Tough Decisions Ahead
First day at the new job!
I’m so excited to start the new job today. I don’t have to be there until 9:30 for orientation, but I made sure we were up and out of the house at the regular time (7 am) so that M could start his day normally and I could have a few minutes to myself before the day really begins. Continue reading “Tough Decisions Ahead”
Trying to keep M in his pants and his pants all belted up has become a challenge. I’ve talked about how he’s been struggling with how to thread his belt through the loops in his pants, where to start the belt when he’s threading it through, how to fasten it . . . and then when he takes his pants off, he will worry with where his belt is and how it is looped and sitting on a shelf or on the dresser. Continue reading “Belt THIS Up”