Patience Smay-tience

Patience Smay-tience

Today is my mother’s eighty-fifth birthday and we will celebrate with coconut shrimp, whipped mashed potatoes, chocolate ice cream and Chardonnay.  She’ll get phone calls and birthday cards and flowers from friends and family. She’ll feel loved and appreciated. And tomorrow she won’t remember any of it.  Dementia does that.  It’s indiscriminate about what memories […]

Dementia Continued

Dementia Continued

This is my 100th post.  It’s also the day that  I move my mom out of her sweet little condo into an assisted living community. It’s taken months of anxiety and planning to actually get here, to this moving day. You would think that after today the worst is over.  She’ll be in a safe, […]

When Dementia Steals Your Childhood

When Dementia Steals Your Childhood

Guys, I need help. When I started this blog it was to share my ideas, experiences and (dare I say) wisdom with anyone who cared to listen.  If you do follow GA, you may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything in a while.  That’s because I’ve been struggling with the reality of being a […]