Jul 18
Yesterday, July 17, 2014, was the 5-year anniversary of Vicki receiving her diagnosis of having something called “Frontotemporal Dementia” (FTD), and was told she had only 6 months to 2 years left to live. I visited Vicki 4 weeks later. She’d been trying to find out as much as she could about this disease. One …
Permanent link to this article: https://vickisvoice.tv/2014/07/christine-bryden-conversation-dementia/
Mar 24
When we saw it, Vicki and I each wanted to share this message with you. It captures this time in Vicki’s life so clearly.
Permanent link to this article: https://vickisvoice.tv/2014/03/ask-remember/
Nov 01
I fired up the laptop to write a post about a report our friend John Sandblom shared with Vicki about higher mortality risks with antipsychotic drugs often used with older dementia patients (U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s Public Health Advisory: Deaths with Antipsychotics in Elderly Patients with Behavioral Disturbances; later confirmed in Europe). But my post …
Permanent link to this article: https://vickisvoice.tv/2013/11/dementia-drug-treatments-complicated-at-best/
Aug 13
I’ve been visiting Vicki for a few days. When I arrived, Vicki was having one of the best days she’d had in quite a while. I haven’t seen her with this much energy in a long time. She told me she’d had a great visit with her daughters the evening before, and was enjoying a …
Permanent link to this article: https://vickisvoice.tv/2013/08/elbow-texting-call-for-help/
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