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The Caregiver agrees with Socrates

April 25, 2018 llorton 8 Comments

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, is held to be the originator of the statement that ‘the unexamined life is not worth…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: 5 stages of grief, Alzheimer's disease, care giving, caregiving, dementia, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Frontotemporal degeneration, grief, home, male caregiver, memory, PPA

Hospice brings a Kind of Peace to the Caregiver

March 28, 2018 llorton 5 Comments

It is ironic that, as my wife gets worse, as her disease progresses, my life becomes less time-stressed. This ‘new…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alzheimer's disease, care giving, caregiving, dementia, Dementia with Lewy bodies, DLB, Frontotemporal degeneration, FTD, home, hospice, hospital, Parkinson's disease, placement, PPA, Primary Progressive Aphasia

The Care Giver Is Reminded of the First Signs.

March 13, 2018 llorton 21 Comments

As my wife slept in her new bedroom, this week I began going through the almost four decades of paper…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: care giving, caregiving, dementia, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Frontotemporal degeneration, FTD, home, Parkinson's disease, Primary Progressive Aphasia, symptoms

Running Away and Staying Close – a Care Giver’s Life

December 14, 2017 llorton 29 Comments

There are very few times in my life , perhaps only two, that I have been faced with terrifying, fear-inducing…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alzheimer's disease, care giving, caregiving, dementia, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Frontotemporal degeneration, FTD, home, male caregiver, Parkinson's disease, PPA, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Vascular dementia

Going Into Care – a story of me and John

September 22, 2017 llorton 3 Comments

Each of us is unique both in him or herself and in reaction to the situations we all face at…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, Frontotemporal degeneration, FTD, home, nursing, Parkinson's disease, placement, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Vascular dementia

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Recent Posts

  • The Care Giver Experiences the Last Day of the First Year May 14, 2019
  • The Woe of the Widow’s Children April 18, 2019
  • The (Widow’s) Theory of Everything February 28, 2019
  • The Widow Encounters The Old Astronomer December 3, 2018
  • The Caregiver Goes On – exchanges grief for the permanent sadness of loss November 30, 2018
  • The Widow Embraces The Pain October 14, 2018
  • The Widow Acts on Unfinished Business August 28, 2018
  • The Caregiver Deals with Grief August 26, 2018
  • Time and The Widow July 6, 2018
  • The Care Giver Steps Through a Door July 5, 2018
  • The Care Giver Realizes He Is Two Persons June 23, 2018
  • The Care Giver Responds to Memory June 12, 2018
  • The Caregiver Enters a New Phase June 1, 2018
  • The Caregiver and the Final Days May 6, 2018
  • The Caregiver agrees with Socrates April 25, 2018
  • The Caregiver is Forced to Consider the Future April 19, 2018
  • The Caregiver Catches a Glimpse of the End April 17, 2018
  • Hospice brings a Kind of Peace to the Caregiver March 28, 2018
  • The Caregiver Finds Something That He Will Remember March 24, 2018
  • The Care Giver Is Reminded of the First Signs. March 13, 2018
  • Sue and I at 7 Years March 11, 2018
  • Stress and the Caregiver March 2, 2018
  • A Care Giver and Forgiveness February 15, 2018
  • Extra portions of grief for the care givers. February 3, 2018
  • Strategy for a Care Giver’s Survival January 23, 2018
  • Running Away and Staying Close – a Care Giver’s Life December 14, 2017
  • A Day in Our Life November 27, 2017
  • The Interaction of Religious Beliefs and Care Giving November 24, 2017
  • The Beliefs of a Devout Christian Woman November 23, 2017
  • The Beliefs of a Devout Christan Man November 23, 2017
  • The Beliefs of a Quiet Christian November 23, 2017
  • The Thought of a Secular Jew November 23, 2017
  • An Anti-Theist Looks at Belief November 23, 2017
  • My Journey From Believer to Atheist November 23, 2017
  • Do Beliefs Support a Care Giver? November 13, 2017
  • Dementia, Abuse and Divorce – Part II October 28, 2017
  • Dementia, Abuse and Divorce – Part I October 28, 2017
  • Are Words, even Silly Words, As Damaging as Disease? October 26, 2017
  • A New Look at ‘Deathwatch while Laughing’ October 22, 2017
  • Looking For – and Finding Friends with Benefits October 6, 2017
  • Persons with Dementia and Their Absent Friends September 29, 2017
  • Going Into Care – a story of me and John September 22, 2017
  • Speech and Language Pathologists and a frustrating statement September 14, 2017
  • The Caregiver Learns a New Lesson August 30, 2017
  • The Brain Does Not Always Comprehend What The Eyes See. August 23, 2017
  • Male Care Givers Are Different – but only on the surface August 15, 2017
  • The Damage Friends Do – secret hurts to caregivers August 8, 2017
  • Synchronicity July 27, 2017
  • Not the beginning of my caregiving experience but it is my first public blogging July 25, 2017
  • Back Home being a Caregiver again. January 8, 2017
  • A Caretaker Brings His Loved One Home December 22, 2016
  • A Caregiver Gives Over Care to a Hospital December 18, 2016
  • A Caregiver Learns to Understand the Incomprehensible December 6, 2016
  • A Caregiver Must Step Away From Pain December 4, 2016
  • A Caregiver Searches for a Finite Answer and Relief with the Expression of Grief. November 30, 2016
  • Things a Caregiver Learned About Life November 20, 2016
  • A Caregiver Dreams of a Possible Future November 17, 2016
  • A Caregiver Realizes The Subtle Things That Are Lost November 14, 2016
  • A Caregiver Remembers Smoothing the Blanket Over His Children November 10, 2016
  • A Caregiver Celebrates His Birthday November 3, 2016
  • A Caregiver Sees What It Means to Have things Really Tough October 15, 2016
  • The first thing a caregiver wants to know October 10, 2016
  • the value for a caregiver of support groups and keeping a journal October 1, 2016
  • A Caregiver learns from Encarcerated Men September 25, 2016
  • Epiphany #2 in Caregiving September 22, 2016
  • The Loss of System 1 Thinking September 17, 2016
  • I Spend My Life Waiting – Impatiently September 5, 2016
  • Nothing Important, Just the Usual Going Downhill Crap September 1, 2016
  • To the people in the FB Support Groups September 1, 2016
  • Behaving Badly August 7, 2016
  • Sitting in Dunkin Donuts August 2, 2016
  • There may not be treatment for the patient but there is for the caregiver. July 15, 2016
  • Nighttime Thoughts July 10, 2016
  • Deathwatch while laughing July 5, 2016
  • Why do Buddhists Pray? – notes from a non-theist foxhole. July 2, 2016
  • Five Stages of This and Three Parts of that July 1, 2016
  • My good friend, my lawyer June 20, 2016
  • Stages Basically Suck June 18, 2016
  • A Little Ounce of Humanity June 15, 2016
  • Introspection Sometimes Hurts June 12, 2016
  • Adventures in Learning June 12, 2016
  • Trying to keep track of what is happening May 26, 2016
  • Epiphany Number Two September 22, 2015

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