The unreal reality of my first Christmas without my sweet Dewey is behind me, while the vast expanse of a new year – the first full one – as his widow stretches before me. It’s hard to know where to look. As the trauma and grief ease ever so slightly I realize there is soContinue reading “The Story Continues”
Category Archives: Hallucinations
Dream On
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) is widely acknowledged as a core clinical feature of LBD. It often precedes or displays in concurrence with the onset of LBD. A study involving RBD and LBD (or, as it is often called, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, or DLB), can be found at https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bn/2018/9421098/. Mr. Dewey hasContinue reading “Dream On”
Visitors
A hallmark of LBD is hallucinations, or visions. We call them Visitors. They are benign, and often, Mr. Dewey finds them comforting. This is not uncommon, and it is most welcome. Anything that provides comfort is welcome, especially in month 8 of the pandemic lockdown, the self-isolation, the management of the “pods” that such entails.Continue reading “Visitors”
Lewy, Dewey and me 