Who, you might ask, is Lewy?

The short and sweet answer is that Dr. Lewy and Dr. Alzheimer were working together when Dr. A found the tangles in the brain cells which are characteristic of the symptoms we know of as Alzeheimer's Disease. Dr. Lewy identified a second type of dementia, characterized by structures in the brain cells which are now known as Lewy Bodies. Dementia with Lewy Bodies is a lot like Alzheimers, but symptoms come and go, become more intense and less so, from day to day and sometimes from hour to hour. (Can I say minute to minute?) It is the third most common type of dementia.

Not sure where this adventure will take us, but my husband Ranney was diagnosed with DLB (shortcut) this past fall. To most of us it seemed a sudden thing, but looking back, we could identify occurrences that were definite signs that this was coming.

In this blog we will chronicle some of the heartbreaks and humor that come up when living with DLB. And yes, humor, we laugh, often.

Wednesday 22 March 2017

The flowers on the quilt

Here is the story of the flowers on the quilt. This happened early on, and I thought, well that's odd, but didn't bring it up at any doctor appointments or anything. Perhaps if I had...

We were sitting on the bed and Ranney says: "Those flowers are fighting."

"They are?"

"Yes. Those over there are okay, but these are fighting."

We went back and forth about it for a few minutes and then I change the quilt. I don't believe we used that quilt again while he was at home.

One thing that happens with Lewy Bodies is visual hallucinations. This would be a form of that. I put it together later that it was.

1 comment:

  1. THat must have been strange when it happened but scary when you realised the truth.

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