Welcome to Day 4 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge.
In the early days of mums dementia we would find that she would repeat herself a lot of the time. We didn’t know or expect to be where we are now and the decline over the years rapidly increased. Mum would talk a lot about my father who had pass many years previously and she would recount the story of them meeting and how she had her eye on him. She told us that when he saw her he called to her – she played hard to get for a while and then the rest resulted in 3 children and many years of happy marriage. I didn’t understand how important those stories would be to me as time when on and these are the same stories that I repeat back to her hoping to spark a memory or bring a smile to her face.
The decline in memory even with medication is inevitable but one of the things that I have found helped greatly was putting together a book filled with photographs and a little bit of information. It is just an A5 book and I printing out some of the pictures, if you want to create something bigger you can..
This is also a good exercise to do with the younger generation; if you have photographs of when you were younger get them out and start talking about those times. There is so much about our stories that are lost and don’t get handed down and end up in a box as old photographs. I encourage you to spend some time capturing the stories and keeping the memories alive, you can never underestimate the power of those times spent sharing.
For today, take one photo at a time, and remember and record the memories. Do leave a comment and tell me what you do with the photographs that you have in your collection....Blessings!