Holiday tips to handle dementia

Before I forget. I want to thank everyone for the 100s of emails I get daily. I read each and everyone of them but just can’t answer all of them everyday. So my apologies. Please don’t take it personally. But they are all helpful and encouraging to me even when you just ask me questions. You are not forgotten. I was really feeling pretty proud of myself for thinking that I was beginning to remember everyone’s name and something about them. Then the other day, I got mixed up with some “Helens.” A lot of same first names. Oh, well. Just chalk it up to those senior moments!! Smile, smile.

I came across this article this morning. Holiday tips to handle dementia. Looks like it could be a helpful article.

My ‘dogtag’ should be arriving today. We finally decided to get one from American Medical ID. Since I have wandered out at night and drove the car during one of those abnormal REM episodes, we’ll will certainly feel better about it. If anyone decides to get one, I did find another website which has a coupon for free shipping. It saved me $6.00. I liked the options it gave me for engraving. Very nice.

I can’t seem to get the energy up to write about illusions, etc. I started a draft post on it. But one of these days soon I’ll finish it. I like to feel real sharp when I do an educational post.

Pam and Chad just left to do some last minute Christmas shopping. We’re celebrating our Christmas tomorrow. Chad has to work on Monday and then he goes into the hospital on Tuesday for major surgery. He’ll be in for several days over Christmas. That’ll be a good time for me to get caught up with some reading, crafts, etc. They’ll be long days. We all know how that can be rather boring. He’s having bariatric by-pass surgery. Has been dieting to no avail since childhood. So this’ll be a positive change for him in his life.

Am going to try to read this afternoon and knit a little bit on Pam’s mittens.

Have a good Saturday to all.

Warmly………….David