Category: My Story

You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but… Part 2

My mother had a way with adages, like this one. Her ending would be “… you can’t make her eat.” Well, whether eat or drink, my brain has become that horse. For the last 6 months, it’s like there’s a Mini-Vicki that has taken control of anything my will wants done. Maxi-me says, ‘Tomorrow I …

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Thoughts from a mother on Fathers Day…

Her blue eyes seemed even bigger, the blue almost a crystal. Her smile was one of peace and joy. Skin as a baby’s. Hair like a small toddler, feathery, soft. Her hands were clumsy. And as the brain cancer grew more and more we would just sit and look into her eyes. Her beautiful eyes. …

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You can lead a horse to water, but… Part 1

you can’t make him eat,” my mother would say. Which is true on many levels if you chew on it long enough. Beverly wisdom to live & die for. With this disease I’m having lots of problems with that darned horse. I either can’t find it, or if I find it I don’t remember why …

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Hot hot hot

Hot. Steamy, wet hot. Walking through wet wool hot. Hair plastered to head and neck hot. Can’t breathe, can’t sleep hot. No matter how you turn your pillow no cool hot. Tossing and turning, getting up I lay at the foot of the bed, closest to the window waiting to catch a wimpy breeze. No …

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Mayo Clinic

Getting into a medical testing for Frontotemporal Dementia is only the first step. Paying for being in the test is even harder. So far, I’ve had to cancel appointments 2 times. How long they will keep me on the list is unknown. Mayo Clinic is THE leader in looking for the source of FTD and …

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