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Darce Fardy – Living with dementia
I think I am doing fairly well as far as advancing dementia is concerned. I think Dorothea agrees. I know she is always on alert, but we can still enjoy ourselves. I relieved her of one substantial worry when I voluntarily decided to stop driving. I read recently that one of the issues relevant to […]
read moreDarce Fardy – Pessimism is sometimes hard to avoid
As it was going to print I was told I had dementia. It was noted in the last pages of the book. And there I was with an uncertain future for me and Dorothea and my wonderful family. If my dementia is not showing improvement then it must be deteriorating. But it doesn’t feel like […]
read moreFARDY: Forgetting is a central fact of life for me
Pleasant diversions are a wonderful antidote for dementia. I had them in spades recently. Son Peter and and wife Carol invited Dorothea, daughter Donna and me to a no expense flight to Toronto and tickets to see Come From Away, that wonderful stage show recognizing the hospitality the people of Gander, N.L., provided to airline […]
read moreDarce Fardy – Return to Gym
It’s comforting to know that studies continue on the mystery of dementia. I have read that the brain tissue lab at Dalhousie University, led by Dr. Sultan Darvesh, has concluded that there’s hope for a cure for Alzheimer’s or, at least, that one in three cases may be preventable. This comforts me. Dementia is something […]
read moreDARCE FARDY: Meeting the most interesting people
We have a mystery in this house. I do nothing and am always tired, wiped out even. You can guess who does all the work. I just finished reading The Leisure Seekers, a novel about a couple in their 80s, the husband with severe dementia and his wife with an incurable health problem. The husband […]
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