After eleven days away, I returned home to discover I could no longer remember how to make my familiar protein drink. Living with dementia, even well-established routines can become inaccessible after an interruption. Sometimes coming home means spending days finding the connections that make ordinary life possible.
What I see in dementia peer groups is not the loss of intelligence, but its transformation. Ideas move between people—shifting, softening, connecting—until what no one could solve alone becomes something we can carry together. This painting of a circle is not about completeness, but about relationship: an intelligence made not of certainty, but of shared, adaptive, and deeply human ways of knowing.
After nearly three years away from blogging, Truthful Loving Kindness has resumed writing due to a regained access to blog administration. Despite cognitive decline, the blog has garnered significant views. Improvements in personal health and ongoing construction projects are highlighted, along with a focus on maintaining hope while managing dementia.
My understanding of anything other than touch is very VERY temporary …
… For eating, today i need mostly finger food or sippy-cup soup. …
Sometimes, a day arrives when it is okay to let go of self-expectations and behaviors that we had chosen with our fully-reasoning brain; returning to traditions from younger, less complicated time of life without guilt.
Toileting issues of Color, Lighting, Recognition, and Hand-Coordination.
When finding a gift for a person living with dementia, often one of the thoughts is a “helpful” gift. Of course choosing a “helpful” gift is very dependent on several factors. …
AFTER addressing the issues, then Let it go !
it obliterates my sense of SELF which is integral to my well-being.
