Those of us Living with mild dementia.!
Hi my name is Craig and I’m living with MCI/ Mild Dementia.
Well i come here to read others experience, strength and hope and remind myself i am not alone in this, i learned this in the rooms of NA and AA for many years.
I am getting to the point where i need to focus on shorter periods of time instead of tomorrow or next week, i focus on the next :30 minutes or even 5 minutes. Not all the time but today it was.
I do a lot of note taking; checklists in particular as i may forget what i was doing while I’m doing it.
So i look at my list and recognize what i was doing and pick back up.
This was very apparent today and for that i am Grateful.
I am grateful that i am aware, maybe not in the moment but at some point i am aware of my deviation.
I share these things; my experience, strength and hope because today was a rough day but i made it through.
I am trying to stay positive and fight off depression because where there is comfort in depression, there is no progress and depression has a terrible way of pulling me in making me think it is a safe place to be, but its not.
I suit up and show up each day, no one day is like the others. Never knowing what level of clarity (cognitive ability) i will have at any given moment.
My mind fades sometimes and find myself in the middle of a room where i must have just been staring at God knows what for how long in a daze.
Found myself standing at my bathroom sink eating a slice of pizza; its like i come out of a little dream or something.
Can you relate to any of this ?
Enough about me.
Thank you all for your experiences
Craig