FTD is the acronym for frontotemporal dementia. It is far more likely to affect the specific aeras of the brain known as the frontal and temporal lobes. This is a brain disease which cause the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes to shrink.
Progress comes in ‘baby steps’
I am on my road to recovery from three major chronical disease: dementia, cancer and autoimmune diseases. I take pills for all three. The auto immune is the worst for me getting around. I do some exercises – not much.
Adrenaline to the rescue
I started writing these with columns, entitled My Voyage with Dementia, back in 2017. I have written one every other week for the last five years. I would like to say that dementia has changed from a “terminal” disease to a “treatable disease,” but that is not the case. As a matter of fact, it hasn’
Another normal Monday
It was a quiet weekend, as most weekends are. We stayed home and just relaxed.
New Year’s resolutions
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to have my column for the Advance Times ready at least one week early.
Looking back over the year of 2022
It has been quite a year for both me and my caregiver – Leah, my wife.
It is all in the words
For six years I have been using the word dementia as either a disease or a dementia, but I am wrong.
Dementia – it’s all about nutrition and exercise
I must be like a broken record. But, I am learning the hard way. I am not following my own guidelines for both nutrition and exercise. I keep asking myself why, but the answer comes back to procrastination. I am so full of good intentions that I am wondering how she (my wife) puts up with me.
