Early Alzheimer’s Disease | The Professor's Convatorium

Fast Update:

My Mom is probably in her last few days or weeks—1-3 weeks?—to live so I have been extremely busy with all sorts of legal preparations, Last Will & Testament, medical power of attorney “Do Not Resuscitate” preparations, and then as you might imagine… a ton more tasks, preparations to move again soon, etc., etc., et al. It might not settle back to normal for some time now. 🤷‍♂️

*Mom & I – Kerrville Ren Festival – Jan 2023*

Until the next update… whenever that might be.

Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always – Celebrate All Human Organic Experiences – Do Not Take for Granted the Human Element of Life!

This post is merely a bulletin, a progress report and a reminder, for myself, and my followers patiently expecting the last installments of two blog-series I have yet to finish. They are:

Conclusion: A New U.S. Constitution
Paul, Acts, Forgeries & Marcion – Part III (the Marcion part)

There are several other drafts pending and waiting to be finished, but it seems they will have to wait longer to be completed and published.

As many of you know I am the full-time/overtime caretaker of my mom 7-days and nights a week. She suffers from severe dementia which has now progressed into Early Alzheimer’s Disease. Her condition has been noticeably progressing since at least 2017, but has really advanced the last 18-months. She now requires more than one person (me) to care for her. I am no longer able to care for her as one person. I’ve been a one-man show since August of 2021 with very few and limited breaks so this is not only required for her, but more so myself.

Come this June or July—that’s the time-frame we are shooting for—Mom will be admitted into an Assisted Living Memory Care facility. You might imagine what all has to be done to 1) find the best Assisted Living Memory Care facility, 2) move out of her current Senior Living apartment and lots of furniture moved into storage, 3) getting all the legal paperwork sorted out to move her into an Assisted Living Memory Care facility, 4) the Long-term Care insurance policy claim initiated, which has been done, 5) her late husband’s Veteran’s Benefits Assistance initiated, 6) get Durable Power of Attorney completed, and 7) finally get myself completely moved back up (again) to Dallas, Texas after all tasks for Mom have been completed. Then 8) find employment in the Dallas metroplex that pays enough to live on and hopefully (fingers crossed 🤞) with a little safety net rainy day fund. The latter is not as easy as it once was 25-35 years ago. Wages in Texas have not kept up with “inflation” or the cost of living per zip code.

In other words, my next 10 or 12 weeks are going to be quite busy, to say the least. I will do what I can for my blogging, but I can make no promises. I do appreciate all of your patience and understanding. At some point in late July or early August I will be back into Dwain’s full-swing and living his own life once more. It is so needed and cannot come soon enough for me. 🙂

Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always