Another day, another visit. I stopped yesterday afternoon to visit with my dad after skipping a couple of days. He’s been confined to a Honolulu nursing home since late 2008, suffering from a combination of dementia, Alzheimers, and less serious physical ailments. He will be 96 on December 7. There are good days and bad [...]
Tags: alzheimers·dementia
I made a quick trip over to visit my dad at lunch yesterday at the skilled nursing facility on Beretania Street where he’s been since the end of last year. When I arrived, he was in bed asleep, but the cart bringing lunch was being wheeled down the hallway, so I woke him up. He [...]
Tags: alzheimers·dementia
My dad continues to deal with dementia, while we learn the strange ways of the brain. When I stopped by to visit him yesterday morning, he wasn’t out in the public room. I found him in bed and apparently asleep. But when I pulled a chair over by the side of the bed, he woke [...]
Tags: dementia
First it was a somewhat hoarse meow in the dark. Then two large paws started kneading on whatever part of my body they were closest to. Next, the whole 16-pound cat climbed onto my stomach as I lay in the dark, front paws towards my face, paws & claws pumping up and down in a [...]
Nothing political today. It’s Sunday. Hey, who’s the old guy sitting with my 95-year old father? Oops. That’s me. Photo taken during a late afternoon visit. My sister had just taken him out for a walk along Beretania Street to the next corner and back, aided by a fancy 4-wheeled walker. He was pooped out [...]
Tags: dementia
