What is Dementia
Dementia is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Particularly affected areas may be ...
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Sunday November 29, 2009
Painful Stories
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Everyone kept telling me that everything was going to get better; I was going to feel better. That isn't true. Sometimes it doesn't get better. When someone has been a daily part of your life for 43 years.... you saw them, talked with them, laughed with them, went places with them... everyday...for 43 years...and then lose them...it doesn't GET BETTER!!! It will NEVER GET BE...
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How does one forgive the person who deliberately took the life of another? I believe the man is suffering and God help me I'm glad. In the beginning I said I want him to wake up every day and remember what he did, and suffer. Suffer every day for many years, at least a hundred. I still feel that way.
Some how I've got to find the grace to forgive. I'm not a youn...1 Recommendation4 Comments -
We here at the Lupus sight of DS all have experienced alot of Pain at sometime or other. Physical pain , emotional pain, fear of the unknown, fear of financial ruin. Yes, we have felt and still do feel pain. But thanks to many doctors, pharmacists, researchers ect...we live longer and better than any of our predecesaors. Where am I going with all this?
Well, today is Good Friday and I ...2 Recommendations4 Comments -
It's a weird thing but Pain can be so isolating that it creates loneliness. As if pain isn't enough, we have to face the indignity of not being able to do what we did before. We can't go where we used to either.Oh, don't get me wrong people are kind and caring, but nothing changes the fact that our world as we know it is shrinking! We find we can't keep up, so we hide aw...3 Recommendations8 Comments
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Good Evening DS~
My week has been the usual whirlwind of activities, helping a teenager finish in time to graduate (not mine), watching Miss Kadence on Tuesday and Wednesday while T. gave riding lessons. Went to the dentist yesterday to start some long overdue tooth repair and got a filling in my front tooth. I had a doctors appt. today with my latest rheumatologist.
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im haveing a really hard time....im trying to end my 15 yr relationship with my spouse..i basically was guilted into giveing him a 2nd chance.
Im emotionly drained...& very unhappy
sorry if im not around much
Thank you all for all your wonderful support, it means SOOO much
Can anyone tell me, how to become a stronger person???????????????????2 Recommendations5 Comments -
My Grandmother died on april 17, 2008. I miss her with all of my heart. I am currently still living in her house. We are all working on gettng her things cleaned out as well as mine for me to move and for the house to go on the market.
She came hame from the rehab hospital in march. Somehow either at the hospital or rehab hospital she contracted an infection called C. Difficile. She went back int...1 Recommendation4 Comments -
Hi friends,
last time a friend needed prayers you all came full force. and I love you all for that.
Blether means a lot to me, and your prayers helped her.
this time there is a young woman named Tracy, and she needs all the prayers she can get.
she has cancer (it has come back) it metastasized into her bones.
that is a seriously painful cancer. my mothers did that and it was hell for her.
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Am feeling really low right now, have just had a good cry, which has probably done me good really. Had a busy day, Philip has pushed for the flat to be evaluated so someone came in with me today to valuate it and I have another agent tomorrow *sigh*.......while the two men were looking round I was in another room, trying so hard not to cry. Managed to keep it in. I feel it is all too ...1 Recommendation8 Comments
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I am feel low right now. I know I thought I would always be prepared for when my mom dementia would start to take over. She was giving Betty whom stays with her durning the day a rough time. Betty is my mom niece. Betty went home crying. Saying my mom was mean to her. Then Michelle comes in and my mom is looking for her baby. going through closets and thats when I came in. She was so upset ...1 Recommendation6 Comments
