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Caregiver: Entertainment Engineer, Snot Cop

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 This week the Divas and Princes asked me about the specifics.  They want to be ready when their time to deal with incontinence arrives.  It will come. I was going to include instructions and tips here in this post.  But I have decided to create a separate post entitled Dementia Doodoo Diva.  What do you think? Instead I will talk about keeping George active and trying to satisfy his "go and do" urge.  This "go and do" need is something that is not uncommon among persons with dementia. In our support group there are persons with dementia that want to go and do and there are persons with dementia that don't want to go anywhere or do anything.  I am lucky that George wants to go and do.   Though sometimes it drives me nuts that he sometimes just can't sit and do nothing, I would much rather he want to go so that I can go. Since we returned from our Hurricane IRMA escape trip we have biked and walked and visited folks and gone

Day 106 - Home Adjusting, Looking Back, Looking Forward

Sunday, August 4, 2016 The cruelest part of dementia, I think, is the roller coaster.  Just when you are feeling adjusted to the loss of your loved one, they have a great day.  George is back!  I fall in love all over again. How does that happen?  If the brain cells are dead like the doctors say, then how can someone who couldn't carry on a conversation for many weeks is now all of a sudden able to chat with you?  Someone who can't think what to do with themselves now thinks to take out the trash and the recycling.  Now, I know what you are thinking.  He is home in familiar surroundings.  But before we left on our trip we were home and he wasn't listening and comprehending my side of phone conversations and was forgetting about the trash and recycling. He had good days when we were traveling.  On Sunday after we got back from our trip George had a VERY good day. I have heard of people on their deathbeds.  Laying there close to death for days and then, just befor