The Diagnosis.

August 30, 2023. The day our world turned upside down. The day my husband was diagnosed with Early Onset Frontotemporal Dementia at the age of 55. Life has not been the same since. It has been hard. So hard. The worst thing in the world is watching your most favorite person in the world slip away right before your very eyes. There has been tears and anger and sadness and loneliness and grief– so much grief. 

While it would be easy to hide away from the world, from day one, I have vowed we are going to do these Dementia’d Days well. So, we face the hard, we look for the good, we adapt, and we live. 

This year as we hit the one year mark, we are choosing to celebrate. We are choosing to celebrate the sweetness that has come from this diagnosis. We are celebrating the good things we still have in life. We are celebrating the fact that we can do hard things, the impossible things, and still live a great life. 

Tomorrow will be hard enough, so will the day after that, and the day after that, and the day after that, and the day after that…So today we are choosing to celebrate--I am choosing for us to celebrate.