I stayed awake to call my mom last night, being full aware her dementia is getting worse... but knowing she has good and bad times. When I got on the phone, she recognized me, and the conversation went great for the first 4-5 minutes or so... then, just like a light switch she blurted out with this question ( Read more... )

I needed to move onto another journal, a lot of what I had was in the past - but I couldn't let go of the username trashcan_blues because it really stuck with me and fit for so long. I will continue to use that journal, but likely only privately, and have this one instead be my friends only new journal ( Read more... )