My Mother in the Men’s Room

My Mother in the Men’s Room

By MB I took my mother far into the men's room today, not because I'm making a political statement but because as her caregiving daughter I'm sleep-deprived. I walked out of the store the other day without paying, not because I wanted to take something (I immediately...

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5 Ways to Help with Sundowning

5 Ways to Help with Sundowning

Help with Sundowing Sundowning is hard--both for the loved one and the caregiver.  It's the jitters on steroids and sometimes it's strong and sometimes it's not.  But as the sun goes over the horizon it is like our loved one turns into a nervous mess.  It typically...

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Gluten, Carbs and Such = Hallucinations?

Gluten, Carbs and Such = Hallucinations?

Inspired by the blog Back Door Logic, I'm recording what foods are aggravaters for hallucinations, because we are right now in full blown scary hallucination, nervous mode. Last night was bread, breakfast was bread, lunch had rice and supper had rice. If the gluten...

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What Does it Look Like?

What Does it Look Like?

I've continued to think on what it means to be more than a conqueror.  For me I would like it to mean 1)  A meaningful time with my mother.  Lucidity would be best.  But shared memories, good memories are still good. 2)  A gentle death.  Not one marked by so much...

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More than Conquerers

More than Conquerers

1 Peter 1:6-7New International Version (NIV) 6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which...

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What does it look like?

What does it look like?

I've continued to think on what it means to be more than a conqueror.  For me I would like it to mean 1)  A meaningful time with my mother.  Lucidity would be best.  But shared memories, good memories are still good. 2)  A gentle death.  Not one marked by so much...

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A Life Journey

Seems like LBD is a death sentence but today there was so much life.  Since we are taking shifts caring for mom, for 1/2 of the day I do nothing but work with her to cook, garden, take drives, etc...  I was thinking today that her doc told me that if she wasn't being...

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Hope Rising against Hope

God is the God of the impossible. On Wednesday we went to the International House of Prayer to get prayer for my mom.  They prayed healing and such over my mom, but they also felt I had a spirit of heaviness.  (She prayed sweetness in my spirit.)  She is right...about...

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The Lord is my Shade

The Lord is my Shade

Psalm 121 A song of ascents. 1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains—     where does my help come from? 2 My help comes from the Lord,     the Maker of heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot slip—     he who watches over you will not slumber; 4 indeed, he who...

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Lewy Body Dementia–The Disease No One Wants

To you who read this it is probably because you were thrust into a world that you did not want, and you are desperate for understanding, assistance, comfort and knowledge about the future.  At least that is what I want. For me it started so abruptly 3 1/2 months ago...

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YES - The book below is the one I wrote.  It's a "just the facts you need to know."  No stories, charts, or antyhing. I wrote it because as a caregiver, I was too tired to wade through heavy science and theory that other books offered. I just wanted the essentials in short chapters. It's the book I would have wanted. If that's what you need also, then here it is:

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