A Walk Down Memory Lane

Tonight, out of the blue, Dad asked if he could go on the computer and look up his old Navy ships. Surprised but pleased in his interest, we broke out the laptop and started our Google search. Within minutes, we found just what he wanted to see.
Dad was so excited to see pictures of [...]

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Happy Father’s Day

Wishing my Dad a most wonderful day. I love you.

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She’s Back

Mom is home and Dad is happy
All is well here and we’re looking forward to celebrating Father’s Day this weekend.

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Oops!

The other day Dad and I went out to lunch. Upon returning to my car to leave, Dad wandered off in the parking lot as he was looking at something in the sky. I went ahead to my car and kept calling Dad to come on over and get in the car. As I’m about [...]

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So Far So Good

Things are still going well sans Mum. We’ve been busy running errands, going to happy hour at a fantastic outdoor restaurant and Dad and I even went shoe shopping- at his request. Got to love a Dad that wants to go shoe shopping with his daughter, ha! The Hubs, Dad & I also went to [...]

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Tinkering With the Meds

Recently, Dad had a few doctor’s appointments that resulted in various physicians deciding to mess around with his current drug regiment. There was no major reason for the tinkering as Dad has been doing really well for the most part. However, it was decided to ween him off one “bad” drug but in order to [...]

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Update: Dementia with Lewy Bodies- Dreadful, Common, Understudied?

I received the following information in an email from the LBDA about the upcoming Alzheimer Research Forum’s webinar, Betwixt and Intermixed-Dementia With Lewy Bodies:
The Alzheimer Research Forum, is the web’s most dynamic scientific community dedicated to understanding Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders like Lewy body dementias.
Their upcoming event, Betwixt and Intermixed-Dementia With Lewy Bodies has [...]

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Mom in NYC

Mom and Sister are having a great time in NYC. They have checked out Times Square, were cultured at the Met and saw a show on Broadway. Sister has heaps more planned while Mom is in town.
Yesterday they sent us some pics of Mom having fun…

Things here are still going relatively well. Dad [...]

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Respite for Mom

Lately, things have been very busy around here. The Hubs and I are packing up to move East, we’re planning on listing Mom & Dad’s home- at least for rent- and hopefully moving them East, Dad’s meds are being tinkered with by the docs which are causing problems (why they had to mess with them, [...]

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Dementia with Lewy Bodies- Dreadful, Common, Understudied?

Alzheimer’s Research Forum will be hosting a scientific webinar titled “Dementia with Lewy Bodies – Dreadful, Common, Understudied?” on Monday June 15, 2009 at 12 noon Eastern Time for one hour.
Click here to learn more and to register. The LBDA also lists info about the webinar which can be found here.
After you register, you will [...]

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Lewy Body Dementia- What is it?

There is a recently published 3-page article written by an LBDA support group facilitator. Click here to read it. To advance to the next page, click ‘page ahead’ on the top right of the article.

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LBD Research

I came across this on the Yahoo LBD Caregiver’s site and is also found on the LBDA forums.
The Alzheimer’s Research Forum is running a nine part series on an international Alzheimer’s Disease/Parkinson’s Disease conference held in March of ‘09 in Prague and on an international Dementia with Lewy Bodies/Parkinson’s Disease Dementia conference held a [...]

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