Ray of Sunshine

This was our 3 years of crazy and or as we refer to them, the "hell" years. Sometimes we felt like we were the "crazy" ones. We laughed, cried and guilted ourselves til it hurt, sometimes we fought each other because the pain we felt had to come out in some kind of fashion or eat us alive. I wish I had known then what I know now, what to watch for, how to intervene earlier rather than later. If you notice behavior changes that do not make sense, memory loss that seems more th

For us it was the start of what we call - "The crazy years". Dad probably never recognized mom again and went on to look for her for the next three years. He over night had lost sight of her. He was often looking for his mother or his wife. He regressed back to a very young age, probably late teens, early twenties - just home from the Korean war. Since Dad was Mom's caregiver - we now suddenly had 2 broken parents to look after. We took them to the Doctor and he diagnosed

I feel it is time to write a bit about my families journey - the journey of aging. I write this not as an expert in any way but as a friend who wants to come along side and perhaps, help you see the things that maybe we missed, the questions you might be able to ask, the steps you should take, before it is too late. I am talking about Alzheimer's and Dementia. 16,000 Canadians under age 65 live with dementia 25,000 is the number of new cases of dementia diagnosed every year