The Emotional care and Feeding of Dementia.

Going to have lunch with them today.

Something that happened that I thought would be a sticky situation that didn't turn out that way. Sweetie had given #1 daughter her mom's engagement ring, when she had already promised it to #2. I said that I wasn't going to get into a daughter to daughter squabble over the ring. 

But when we went over to #1's earlier this month, I mentioned that the ring had been promised to the other, #1 didn't mind. Well, she has found it, and we're going over for lunch today and picking it up. Easy, peasy. I'll keep it until we go over to #2's for a lunch. 

I'm so still learning about emotional feeding of the Demented brain. Yesterday, I had a lousy day on the course, and Sweetie was absorbing all those negative emotional outburst, and it was sending her slowly over the rail. Sundowners didn't burst out, but was sneaking around the edges. When we got home, even with CBD, and a little Stress Relief lotion, she was still on edge. 

After lunch, she took a nap, and I watched "Angel has fallen." I thought while she was sleeping, I could watch part of it. When she joined me on the couch, I left it on to finish. Big mistake. As she watched, she became more and more distant from me. Dementia looses the ability to process all that negative action, the sad thing is I know that. After the movie, and some time over at the neighbor's, I tried to reset her emotions by putting on a movie she likes and is uplifting. It helped a little, but for the rest of the evening until bedtime, I was waiting for her to go off and have to block her from going outside. That didn't happen, and we went to bed without too much drama. 

The emotional care and feeding of Dementia is so tricky. Very much like a dandelion bloom. With one puff, it is gone, and you can't put it back together. The other part about dandelions is, I don't what them in my garden. The same with Sweetie, I don't want them, emotional dandelions, popping up and being blown away and with her emotional serenity with it. 

We're going out again to the course, and it will be a training session for me to keep my bad shot outburst inside. If I can do that, the rest of the day will come off better. Each day another lesson, and with that lesson, comes the pop quiz. 

Just heard the door open, so I know my Driver has arrived, and time for me to get going. He's already to get going, cause we have a lot of ground to cover today. A review of where we were yesterday, and where we are going today, I missed something and He wants to make sure I've seen it. So, off we go, down the Road to Dementia Town, looking for Easter Eggs, Keeping our Shiny Side Up. Do you ever backtrack and look for what you didn't see yesterday? It does happen once in  awhile, as you travel down you Road to Dementia Town. Remember, when your Keeping you Shiny Side Up, you're doing something right. Until tomorrow, Take Care, Love Ya, and God Bless.