An unexpected turn
2020 is nearly done, so hard to believe. This year has been an experience that I cannot sum up with just one word. As I am writing this blog entry, my brain is a bit scattered, foggy, and although I slept good the last couple of nights-I'm more tired than I think I have ever been in my life. A few years back, my Dad started to notice some oddities in my Mom. Little things were forgotten, things that most of us would brush off as simply getting a bit older. This just comes with it right? I had noticed significant mood swings, delays in conversations with Mom a couple years after we moved back to Springfield in 2012 to be closer to family, to help with Ryan's folks as they both were facing health challenges and also for better job opportunities for both of us. As we approached my parents' 50th anniversary in 2019, that summer in particular we experienced some finality in terms of Mom's condition and had to learn to embrace a diagnosis: Dementia. We were thankful