Most Recent RadioWest Film About Gerda’s Dementia Is on the Front Page of Slate Today
There was a time in my life when I thought it would be great to be famous–what for I hadn’t really thought through. Ironically, the fact that I now sometimes appear in the media results from the fact that I have dementia and can still talk about it. Even though I am far more skeptical about fame in my wiser years, I am enjoying my fifteen minutes today of being on the front page of Slate Magazine, where Donald Trump also appears. Infamy, more likely. I hope I will never be that kind of crazy–but who knows what Doña Quixote might have up her sleeve! Slate titled the video How I Know My Dementia is Getting Worse.
August 21, 2016 @ 5:56 pm
God bless you. Thank you for sharing the experience from your view. It’s usually the caregivers. I lived it for many years with my mom, it was quite a ride. Wouldn’t change caring for her through this for the world. It is now a passion of mine to find a cure. Stay strong!!!
August 22, 2016 @ 10:03 pm
Thanks so much for your support and blessing. I some much appreciate it that you are in touch–it is very informative to me to hear what caregivers of people with dementia have to go through. It gives me the opportunity to be pre-appreciative to all the people in my life who will bear the brunt of my decline. It’s also so amazing to me that caregivers do find caring for a patient to have its rewards, as you write. Thanks you for all you have done to make the overall pain of dementia in the world a little bit less.