I’m Still Here
Hello, I’m still here! But this time here means I am home! And I will be here for almost three months!
Managing a hospital visit
For most members of the public, a trip to the hospital is like being thrust into a foreign country without the guidebook! We don’t know the language, are dependent on the healthcare professionals and just hope for the best.
An excerpt from Alzheimer’s from the Inside Out
I race up and down the corridors of my mind, frantically seeking to make sense of what’s going on around me. Sometimes this process makes me even more lost, and I become lost about why I am lost!
Whole and Complete
In the eyes of many others, sometimes even the eyes of care-partners, I am seen as less than a complete someone.
Richard’s call to ACTION
Stand up! Speak Up! Do not victimize yourself with your own silence.
Dr. Richard Taylor’s Journey with Dementia
I am Richard Taylor – a person who has been living with the symptoms of dementia for more than eight years.
Day by Day
As each hour passes day by day,
Sometimes struggling what to say,
Fog and clouds inside my head,
Cannot speak what should be said
Help me Remember
So will you help me, remember when?
Time`s were good, way back then
Hear My Cries
Voice`s fading, not through age,
Dementia building it`s sound proof cage,
Listening in but nothing out,
Unable to talk but able to shout
In Two Minds
I am so angry!!! Not at anybody else, or at myself but at this Dammed Disease!! Whilst I was looking through some computer pics and old postings (something I do regular to remind me hopefully loll) I come to realise I have become two people!! Please stay with me on this as I will try to explain what I feel.