Tag: dementia
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When Life Butts In
I wrote this piece recently for a writing assignment dealing with setting. It’s a reflection on a moment in time about eight years ago. Outside the sliding glass door of our lower-level family room, the snow is quietly falling, and I am mesmerized. My husband and I have lived in this home at the top…
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Life After Alzheimer’s – It’s a Beach
September 10, 2025 It has now been four and a half months since Jim passed. I cried for the first time two weeks ago. I’m not sure why. Grief has its own timetable. Yes, life continues after you walk your loved one to death’s door. You say your goodbye and then what? The feeling is…
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I’m watching him go away
He doesn’t know where he is. He spent three days in panic and he lashed out at me relentlessly because I keep dragging him “here, there, and everywhere.” I couldn’t escape his anger and his badgering. He was in an enraged loop and there was no reasoning with him. Finally, yesterday afternoon I told him…
The Joy of Rambling 