The weeks around and following Thanksgiving Day were hard – some of the hardest so far. It started Thanksgiving Day, and by the end of an evening Zoom gathering with family, it was obvious something was seriously wrong. My sweetie “checked out” during the call, became unsettled and agitated. He decided to lie down onContinue reading “No Time Like the Holidays”
Category Archives: LBD
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”
Margins
MARGINS I’ve been thinking a lot about some observations I’ve had of a particular set of behaviors. I see, frequently, Mr. Dewey engaging in his own life rather marginally. If I am in the kitchen, he will often stand just outside the doorway. If he sits on a chair, it is tentatively so, as ifContinue reading “Margins”
Lewy, Dewey and me 