TALKING TIME

 MADISON, ALABAMA

The day started with the dementia attack that started yesterday still giving me lots of trouble. I was hobbling along the halls next to the nice handrail in case my balance got too bad. It was not pretty but I did get some ambulating in.  My therapy time was spent,at my request,discussing my illness situation and my future. Allisson was very agreeable to us being sure we were on the same page as for as my treatments were going. The horrible fact is that the disease is a terminal disease  that cannot at this time be stopped but the time it takes to kill me can be lengthened by years by careful treatments. I am on the careful treatments list and responding well to them.

So I got the big picture painted so I now have some as clear as possible plans for my future. Some folks call me morbid but I like to know what is ahead and do what I can to accommodate the needed actions.  Now I know what and more or less when things will happen and that is very comforting.

Now back to todays events. After the therapy session I was still  in bad shape form the Dementia and having to have the hand rail very nearby. I kept on hobbling along the hall hand rails trying to get in some walking even though I could not get to aerobic speeds I needed to. Suddenly in the course of about a minute I went from hobbling to full brisk striding again an flew along the halls. Suddenly I was able to get into briskly striding without the handrail being needed and got in a full thirty minutes of aerobic and heart helping fast walking inside the building.  It is a bit too cold outside today for good walking out there. And I have been doing really well since then. So I plan to keep calling the episodes Dementia attacks. It is now 9.15 pm and I am still going strong. 

I do not know what the dickens is going on but you can be certain I will be pushing the envelope on fighting the unbeatable foe. OFM