Picking Our Battles: Our Life With bvFTD Dementia

It's been awhile since I have written. Being the full time caregiver to a spouse with FTD, and also responsible for yourself, your home,...

In his career, my husband was a building contractor. He had his general contractor's license and ran his own finish carpentry business, ...

My first husband was abusive. Not physically, other than hitting things around me, and throwing things by my head, but emotionally and verba...

Today we bought the first package of adult pull-ups for incontinence. These kind of milestones are not pleasant and happy. They are sad and ...

This disease makes no sense. One minute to the next is often never the same behaviorally, emotionally, and physically. I once heard Frontote...

It's interesting to me that finding information about Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) directly from the patients who have it is hard to fi...

A little dejected today. The last few nights have been rough. Last night wasn't good. Husband is getting very confused on waking and uri...

Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) is it's own beast. No two people have the same journey in the same time stages. For my husband, we noticed...

This past week has been, well, challenging. As you know, Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) can cause a lot of out of character, odd behavior. My...

We recently went on a road trip so I could visit our new gorgeous grand baby, and my husband could visit his ailing father. I was highly wor...

Frontotemporal Dementia is not kind. It's not kind to the one suffering and it's not kind to their family. Last night was not good. ...

Frontotemporal Dementia is a roller coaster you are forced onto without your permission. A wild ride that jerks you around and makes you fee...

This is a journey that no one would choose or welcome. This journey started several years ago, although we didn't know that we were bein...