shelagh
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Last Activity: 17-11-2009 01:16 PM
About Me
- About shelagh
- Location
- Staffordshire
- Interest in Alzheimer's Talking Point
- I have early stage alzheimer's and am intgerested in networking with others, U am still the same person, still working as a counsellor and am fighting not to be treated like a fool
- Occupation
- Counsellor in private practice and occasional college lecturer also lead retreats
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Sometimes it is really hard to walk the line between living a normal life - whatever that is- and doing too much and pushing myself into confusion and distress.
Today was a busy working day, but it was too busy. I had 7 hours face to face work supervising other counsellors and one client. It was too much. When I'm working, I'm just sitting but the concentration needed is immense, even before I was ill, this would have been a too busy day. I saw my last client out at 6 and I was on my knees....
Today was a busy working day, but it was too busy. I had 7 hours face to face work supervising other counsellors and one client. It was too much. When I'm working, I'm just sitting but the concentration needed is immense, even before I was ill, this would have been a too busy day. I saw my last client out at 6 and I was on my knees....
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This is another hard one to write and I'm not sure if I'll press the submit button. When I was a carer 13 years ago,one of the hardest things spart from the violence and the tiredness was to watch the destruction of the mind that had been the one that had inspired and guided and taught me through most of my life. Ironically one of the finest minds I hsve ever encountered. I read something in a book on aging by Sybil Horton which comforted me then and comforts me still. I'm writing it from memory...
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When I was first diagnosed the hardest thing for me was the knowledge that for my children and perhaps even more my beloved grandchildren things were going to change so much. Until now I have been able to be so involved in my grandchildren's lives, and they think Nan is the best thing since sliced bread. So the thought that I was going to be the cause of so many bad sad memories was hard to bear. I decided as a first priority that we should get as many good memories in while we can. And we have,...
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Eating dinner tonight I found myself reaching out for the gravy boat and just stopped myself drinking from it. I can remember watching my lovely Denis do similar things when I was his carer and I could never make sense of it. Trying to maker sense of it for myself. I was thirsty, and the message that seemed to come from my brain was something like ' Thirsty? OK there is some liquid and it's in the right sort of container. Handle, saucer etc etc.
The thirst and the recognition of the container...
The thirst and the recognition of the container...
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I love the internet and particularly Facebook which mny grandchildren signed me up to in August. And to prove it I'm sitting here with tears pouring down my face. Last night one of my grandsons posted a request that 'some lovely person; might buy him a newly released CD for his birthday next week, I replied ' I'm a lovely person - I will '
This morning I find he has added 'Nan you're the lovliest person in the
Now it may be emotonal lability or just happiness that's making me cry...
This morning I find he has added 'Nan you're the lovliest person in the
Now it may be emotonal lability or just happiness that's making me cry...
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