Being diagnosed with vascular dementia, I decided to share my side of the story, while I still can. Sometimes it will be sad and sometimes beautiful or funny memories.
2020 Wasn’t just bad, come to think of it. This year was the healthiest I’ve been in years. One minor cold in January, blood pressure meds had to be increased and a tummy bug.
Well for one thing we saw no one. Worn masks, sanitized… no germs.
One good thing, I taught myself making wire jewelry and just started watercolor painting… So learn new skills. All my life I wanted to be creative, but never had the time… now I can do it, and I think I’m quite successful
Makes me happy. I now just must sell it.
Anyway, I hope this was a bit more positive than my latest posts.
Been a busy day today. Cleaned the chicken beds, washed the floors, vacuumed, cooked…. and thought out some stuff I want to bake. Thinking out that stuff was hard work, since I want to do it tomorrow…..
List: Cinnamon rolls (post photo on facebook ), little blankets (sausage in a dough fried in oil. Vetkoek. Mayonnaise muffins. Much of this I want to freeze for snacks etc….
Found something interesting on facebook. Put a note on bread for Husband… If you don’t stop binging on the bread your pants is not going to fall off anymore because you don’t have hips… there will be enough at the end of the lock down around your waist to keep your pants up. Original note on Facebook said:”You are not hungry, you are bored… go watch some more TV” stuck in the fridge. Very original.
My Dementia Mentors Zoom buddies decided we should have a cowboy theme for next week. Well I don’t have anything cowboy, except for my landlord’s few cows that is grazing outside as we live on a farm. I think I will make a note: “Cowboy theme” and stick it on my forehead. Should do the trick.
We talked about snakes tonight… grrr yuk. Don’t like… nope ….no. I promised to blog a snake story, but will leave that for tomorrow. Someone also made a joke to use baby nappies as face masks, I thought I could just pull mine over my head… then they told me it was only a joke. I can be such an asshole.
My meds is kicking in and I have to go. I did play my Dawn of Titans and touched my jewelry and blogged. Personal mission accomplished. I must put in diary that someone asked me to make a video of my jewelry and post on facebook. Maybe I should and I just need to get a few things sorted. Don’t know how long that’s gonna take lol. Lora has a small stand for her cellphone…. O well at least one idea already.
Hi guys and girls, it is out fourth day of COVID-19 lock down. Many lovely positive things happened today, so no complaints over here.
My dearest friend Marian had her 49th birthday today and I made her a lovely little basket and lid from newspaper. She was really happy with it. She also brought us some frozen chickens and offer to to buy some necessities, so that my husband and I don’t have to be exposed. We decided to wait another 2 days, as the government old age payments were today and there would have been a lot of people. Also, she can get the stuff we need close to us, that is not that much visited by people. That’s really awesome of her.
One thing though…. my husband and his pipe smoking or smoking in general is killing me. I stopped 6 months ago. The pipe smoke gives me a headache and makes me nauseous. Tomorrow, I’m wearing a bandana or scarf around my face. I love him very much, but this is really getting too much.
Another good thing that happened was that I decided to make a Whatsapp group to keep in touch with my 3 brothers. They all thought it to be a good idea and it makes me happy, although I stated it is to chat and not to be spammed with stupid pictures …. those that some people spam your phone with mornings and nights.
I must admit that this pandemic is raising my anxiety to new levels. I do however try to just avoid negative things and search out positive things. Share the amount of people that recovered after having the virus, instead of how many are now infected or died. We have to live in confined spaces for quite some time, so we must take measures to avoid depression. Also, get closer to God, he never leaves us. He is not the one that send this, He is the one that heals. God is in the healing business not killing. His love for us is infinite and far more than we can ever imagine.
Have to go now. Hope and pray that all of you stay safe and are well.
My life with dementia and bipolar disorder. 