Comments for My Demented Mom http://mydementedmom.com 5 million Americans suffer from Dementia. My mom is one of them. A site for young adult caregivers struggling and coping with "the long goodbye." Mon, 14 May 2012 17:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Your Survival Check List by Kathy Ritchie http://mydementedmom.com/the-to-do-list/#comment-1476 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:37:04 +0000 http://mydementedmom.wordpress.com/?page_id=14#comment-1476 Thank you for the suggestion… I have them on my list of resources and follow them on FB, so I can share info they post on their wall. My check list was something I created just based on my own experiences figuring things out along the way.

]]> Comment on Mother’s Day & Dementia… My Own Op-Ed (please share, please spread the word) by Kathy Ritchie http://mydementedmom.com/2012/05/13/mothers-day-dementia-my-own-op-ed-please-share-please-spread-the-word/#comment-1475 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:35:49 +0000 http://mydementedmom.com/?p=1171#comment-1475 Thank you, and I completely understand about not visiting your mom today… at the end of the day, we all have to take care of ourselves, keep ourselves healthy physically, mentally and emotionally.

]]> Comment on Mother’s Day & Dementia… My Own Op-Ed (please share, please spread the word) by Kathy Ritchie http://mydementedmom.com/2012/05/13/mothers-day-dementia-my-own-op-ed-please-share-please-spread-the-word/#comment-1474 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:33:33 +0000 http://mydementedmom.com/?p=1171#comment-1474 I am so sorry for what you have endured… thank you for taking the time to write and share your experience.

]]> Comment on Mother’s Day & Dementia… My Own Op-Ed (please share, please spread the word) by Kathy Ritchie http://mydementedmom.com/2012/05/13/mothers-day-dementia-my-own-op-ed-please-share-please-spread-the-word/#comment-1473 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:32:59 +0000 http://mydementedmom.com/?p=1171#comment-1473 Thank you so much.

]]> Comment on Your Survival Check List by An http://mydementedmom.com/the-to-do-list/#comment-1472 Mon, 14 May 2012 13:45:50 +0000 http://mydementedmom.wordpress.com/?page_id=14#comment-1472 kathy, you should also know that there are alot of resources at the association for frontotemporal degeneration – http://www.theaftd.org – - they focus on all the aspects on this group of terrible diseases, including helping the caregiver – -

]]> Comment on Mother’s Day & Dementia… My Own Op-Ed (please share, please spread the word) by Kathy Daley http://mydementedmom.com/2012/05/13/mothers-day-dementia-my-own-op-ed-please-share-please-spread-the-word/#comment-1471 Mon, 14 May 2012 02:42:58 +0000 http://mydementedmom.com/?p=1171#comment-1471 Many thanks for your eloquent thoughts……for the first time in my life, I didn’t see my Mom today. It felt strange but I really needed to spend the day with my husband and son and not worry about her – for just this once.

Kathy Daley

]]> Comment on Mother’s Day & Dementia… My Own Op-Ed (please share, please spread the word) by Maria from Italy http://mydementedmom.com/2012/05/13/mothers-day-dementia-my-own-op-ed-please-share-please-spread-the-word/#comment-1469 Sun, 13 May 2012 19:48:07 +0000 http://mydementedmom.com/?p=1171#comment-1469 It’s a cruel day, as many other days. My Mom is at a final stage, she got sick twenty years ago. Many comments on how strong her heart is, many remarks on how udeserved a cross can sometimes be.
She doesn’t even see the flowers, so Mother’s Day is for us daughters not for our mothers, I believe. They don’t recognize us but we know who they are, even though they can be our Sleeping Beauties, close to the end. They perceive our presence anyway. No matter what doctors say.
I’m 44 and reading your blog made me think of my youth, when at 25 I was familiarizing with Alzheimer’s disease. I’m not a Mom and I’m single child.
I started a blog as you, some years ago. It’s a drop in the ocean but I think it’s the only way to raise awareness when institutions just turn a blind eye, you know. Mother’s Day is an occasion to ponder also on my future, you’re right. Maybe I’m lucky not being a Mom: if baby-boomers are totally neglected, what will it be like for the following generation?
Thank you for this blog.
Hugs

]]> Comment on Mother’s Day & Dementia… My Own Op-Ed (please share, please spread the word) by kimjoy24 http://mydementedmom.com/2012/05/13/mothers-day-dementia-my-own-op-ed-please-share-please-spread-the-word/#comment-1467 Sun, 13 May 2012 16:24:27 +0000 http://mydementedmom.com/?p=1171#comment-1467 Beautiful post. Absolutely agree about more public education on the various forms of dementia.

]]> Comment on A Little Something Called Frontotemporal Dementia by The New York Times and Frontotemporal Dementia … A Must Read | My Demented Mom http://mydementedmom.com/2010/12/08/757/#comment-1462 Tue, 08 May 2012 14:12:49 +0000 http://mydementedmom.com/?p=757#comment-1462 [...] An article, which appeared in The New York Times, about a wife and her husband who has Frontotemporal dementia really hit home with me……. I wish this article came out five or six years ago…… For me, reading this, well, I felt some comfort………… like when they talked about shoplifting …………… knowing that it wasn’t my mom trying to steal the Almond Joy or the Starbucks (that I had already paid for), it was the dementia eating away at her gray matter. [...]

]]> Comment on Friends With Benefits and Alzheimer’s Disease… by Kathy Ritchie http://mydementedmom.com/2012/04/22/friends-with-benefits-and-alzheimers-disease/#comment-1458 Sun, 06 May 2012 15:43:59 +0000 http://mydementedmom.com/?p=1146#comment-1458 I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for reading the blog.

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