Thursday, August 26, 2010

Dotty Wakes Up Tired but in a Good Mood (Audio)


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By Bob DeMarco

Dotty woke up twice today.

For the last few days Dotty has been eating everything she can get her hands on. This is disturbing because over eating tends to make Dotty more difficult to deal with. She tends to be more irritable because most of her energy is going into digesting her food. It is like it saps the energy from her brain.

She has the early morning back ache. This means poop agita on the horizon for today. We will treat this with a double round of the magic elixir -- prune juice.

At least she is in a good mood so we are off to a good start today.

Listen to Dotty in the CinchCast below.

Sunday, August 01, 2010

Dotty's Erratic Behavior Resurfaces and SO Does My Stomach Ache


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I still have the minor version of the stomach ache today -- right now as I am typing this. I had forgotten what it is like to have a stomach ache all day long, every day. I had assumed that I had just gotten use to the way things are/were.
There have been some very subtle changes in Dotty's behavior over the last several weeks. At first, I didn't think much about it.
However, during the past week I started getting that sick feeling in my stomach that I had for years. It is coming back after a long period of dormancy.
Original content Bob DeMarco, the Alzheimer's Reading Room
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