So far this month I have posted pages from the following persons with dementia SYMPTOMS who have shared their lived experience thru words or projects. Thank you so very much for your generosity of letting the public into your private world ! My hope is that your perspectives can be applied to help and encourage other patients, care-partners, and […]
We all change – but we do not become a different person. The facets of our character are differently reflected with the changing phases, abilities, frustrations, angers and fears, but we are at our basic essence the SAME person – with different aspects emphasized.
Tru here. Example of my cooking prowess from day before yesterday: tried to cook a super simple recipe so what could go wrong? Cut finger (rather severely because picked up shears that cut bone) from tremors & poor estimate of finger placement when opening mix packet. Meanwhile knocked liquid to floor and made mess that was […]
No eloquence tonight … just pictures, which can be clicked on to enlarge. For those of us who craft, creating can be huge source of energy and motivation. Above is craft in use of color. Lauren U’s picture depicts the creatures from the hallucinations which surround her. Mine is in center, and Max McCormick’s image […]
Tru here. ((Updated 2018 Mar 3)) Remember that any Links are not behind pictures, but in the colored text. Definition of craft (kr ft) n. 1. Skill in doing or making something, as in the arts; proficiency. As my introduction prefaced at >> https://truthfulkindness.com/2014/10/02/arts-crafts-dementia-intro/ I feel most “alive” when I am creating something, so these are […]
Tru here. October was always month of creativity at our house. Trick-or-treat meant we needed to prepare gift for each house we visited. Some years it was physical gift like autumn greeting card, but some years activity gift like song or very brief skit. One year we did dance/acrobatic performance at each door for Halloween. […]
Clarity of Thought: “I am not stupid, but at this rate my bits of brilliant insight will be scattered across space … like the sparkling milky way.” — TLK
I am not stupid but my thought process is definitely distorted and causes problems with my decision-maker. … the problem is that these are symptomatic of my decision-making process and I never know when it will become dangerous.
… Since I learned from those who went before me and led the way, …
Wisps of thought … gone.
Truthful Loving Kindness 