Tag: dementia

  • Did I pick this up?

    While cleaning my grandmother’s flat for the weekend guests – my mother found a book I’d loaned her last summer. As a book mark in the book, my grandmother had used a “package to pick-up” notice from the post office. My box of books from Amazon.

    My grandmother was in the final stages of being able to live at home, with her dementia, last summer (my grandmother, her dementia, me and the Chinese guy in the basement – sounds like the beginning of a joke.) she would bring the post in, and put them “smart places” so she’d remember where she’d put them…

    I have a year old notice that says she might not have remembered to give it to me.

    The question now is: Did the post office send another notice that I actually got – or did they just return them to Amazon once I failed to pick them up?

  • Why dementia is extra bad in these situations

    My grandmother has dementia. It runs in the family. Her mother had it. Her mother’s father, allegedly, had it. (I’m choosing to take the positive here that my grandmother didn’t start getting bad at remembering things until she was 86.)

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