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Challenges Are The New Normal with Dementia or an Autism Diagnosis♦♦ On a recent trip from Missouri to Texas, I encountered a few ongoing challenges. They were transient.
♦♦ The challenges with caring for either a loved one with dementia or a loved one with autism, unfortunately, are permanent. My trip reminded me of both. ♦♦There was the car that chose to come in the one-way exit only which was a one lane road, at the last Missouri rest stop before you get into Arkansas on Highway 55. I was ready to leave and actually started to get on the exit ramp when I saw them come barreling down and I pulled over. The certain head-on collision was avoided. You could see the startled look on the driver of the 18 wheeler about to merge into that lane. And, you could hear his brakes squeal. ♦♦ Then, in Arkansas, from West Memphis to Little Rock, the freeway was the storage area for miles and miles of orange road construction barrels. They must have found a sale on those barrels - like buying a million and getting a half a million free. And, apparently, they must not have any warehouses to store them in, either. Regardless, the powers-that-be in Arkansas decided to squash two lanes of traffic with a large number of 18-wheeler down to one skinny lane several miles before the actual construction. It took a very long time to go almost no where! ♦♦ And then there are always those few jerks who can't read the speed limit signs regardless of what they say. One of those came torpedoing down behind |
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me about the time of the great slow down. He stomped on his brakes and stopped just shy of shoving me into the slow-moving 18-wheeler in front of me. (Honestly, I can’t go any faster than the vehicle in front of me!)
My neck really was tense most of the rest of the trip and he probably needs a new brake job, too!
♦♦ In Loneoke, just before the west side of Little Rock, I stopped and walked around the Walmart, ate my lunch in the car, and got gas. And it was cold and rainy (the weather said it wouldn’t come in until after midnight that night…)
♦♦ Then south of Little Rock, there was the telltale signs of barrel overload again.. The further I went, the more barrels I saw. What made me stop for a pit stop was the blinking sign that said something like this: “Traffic stopped for 8 miles.” The second line on that sign blinked “Traffic less than 20 miles per hour ahead.”
Once back on the freeway it took over two hours to go the next 15 miles.
♦♦ When I pulled into the motel in Marshall, Texas, their computer system was down. They put me in a room anyway.
♦♦ I left my car keys in the office and thought I had locked them in my car.
♦♦Then I had trouble remembering not to put my motel key card in the same pocket with my phone. Yep, they had to be remade twice, maybe 3 times.
Thank you if you are still reading this. You might be wondering what this has to do with Dementia or Autism.
In both, it's always the unexpected. The Delays. The “I didn't see that coming!” And just the plain ol’ being tired of the day in and day out of dealing with situations and challenges.
I can't promise you anything. But I can tell you that memory training for dementia patients with specifically designed card games helps many. That is unless the loved one is, as one daughter put it regarding her dad: “He has deteriorated too much and he can’t play games or even really communicate well anymore. :(“ (The frowny face was hers!)
I still can't promise you anything. But I can tell you many kids with autism respond well to the engagement games specifically designed for autism. But not my neighbor's 30 something year old nonverbal, none engaging autistic daughter who goes to adult day care and is totally in her own little world 24/7. (I wonder if things would have been better for her if she someone played the autism cards with her when she was 6?)
Click on the ORDER HERE button for a variety of card games for those with Autism, dementia, preschoolers and just fun family games.
Remember, there are those potholes and all those barrels all over the place ahead!
My neck really was tense most of the rest of the trip and he probably needs a new brake job, too!
♦♦ In Loneoke, just before the west side of Little Rock, I stopped and walked around the Walmart, ate my lunch in the car, and got gas. And it was cold and rainy (the weather said it wouldn’t come in until after midnight that night…)
♦♦ Then south of Little Rock, there was the telltale signs of barrel overload again.. The further I went, the more barrels I saw. What made me stop for a pit stop was the blinking sign that said something like this: “Traffic stopped for 8 miles.” The second line on that sign blinked “Traffic less than 20 miles per hour ahead.”
Once back on the freeway it took over two hours to go the next 15 miles.
♦♦ When I pulled into the motel in Marshall, Texas, their computer system was down. They put me in a room anyway.
♦♦ I left my car keys in the office and thought I had locked them in my car.
♦♦Then I had trouble remembering not to put my motel key card in the same pocket with my phone. Yep, they had to be remade twice, maybe 3 times.
Thank you if you are still reading this. You might be wondering what this has to do with Dementia or Autism.
In both, it's always the unexpected. The Delays. The “I didn't see that coming!” And just the plain ol’ being tired of the day in and day out of dealing with situations and challenges.
I can't promise you anything. But I can tell you that memory training for dementia patients with specifically designed card games helps many. That is unless the loved one is, as one daughter put it regarding her dad: “He has deteriorated too much and he can’t play games or even really communicate well anymore. :(“ (The frowny face was hers!)
I still can't promise you anything. But I can tell you many kids with autism respond well to the engagement games specifically designed for autism. But not my neighbor's 30 something year old nonverbal, none engaging autistic daughter who goes to adult day care and is totally in her own little world 24/7. (I wonder if things would have been better for her if she someone played the autism cards with her when she was 6?)
Click on the ORDER HERE button for a variety of card games for those with Autism, dementia, preschoolers and just fun family games.
Remember, there are those potholes and all those barrels all over the place ahead!
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