Category: My Story

Message from a Facebook Friend

Posted 2/12/2010 on Facebook messages: Jace Clark February 12 at 3:32pm Vicki, thanks for accepting my request. I found you through a pick’s message board and subscribed to your blog. My mother has Picks dementia and is about your age. Your story just touched me. I think it’s wonderful that you want and are able …

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If you are what you eat, honey I am a mess…

If pictures say a 1000 words, then my kitchen is writing a tome! Dad was a procrastinator supreme, getting Mom’s things done just before the whistle blew. Mom was a reactor, a projectile missile launching repeatedly within an hour, let alone a day. And I am the worst of both, and more than a little …

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October 22, 2009 – Making Memories (Revisited)

The floodlight lays down shadows of the elm tree across my bed. The breeze through my window animates them. It’s dark in Ionia. Stark against the dimmed white walls and bed curtains, shines a luminous glow from my picture frame. Every few seconds, an image of a moment of our lives comes up, pauses, and …

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2/11/2010 An email reply to my question about the symptoms of their mother’s Picks

Hi Vicki, yes my mother does get drained very easily, she is tired a lot. My mum also is on the phone to me and crying but not actually crying. The day before yesterday I phoned my mother and said to her, ‘you know what you want to say and can not get the words …

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February 10, 2010

  Today was the first time that my conversation on the phone shifted from normal to s l o w and gutteral. The sunshine on the new snow shifted to darkness in one fell swoop. I scared both myself and the Credit Union lady … one sure way, I guess, to have creditors stop calling. …

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