My husband was diagnosed with dementia a decade ago.
Around that same time his ex wheedled her way back into his life and tried to convince him I was an awful person. Lots of long boring details but the high points are that between the strokes and the dementia diagnosis two years after? I was homeless because my husband got paranoid and threw me out ( Read more... )

OK so the subject line is for the drama and the LOLs.

That said, according to the neighbor of our mobile home, over a year ago Steve's ex represented herself to them as "Mrs Prescott" and said the mobile home was for sale, and that they could buy it from her for 23K.

The levels of hubris, delusion, and straight up larceny are pretty deep here if ( Read more... )

Here's what Drew's built of the porch so far. It is already LOADS better than the old porch. The one that Nate said he'd "fixed." The one that was rotting right next to the house. Nate's "repair" was nothing more than putting some new boards right on on top of the rotting boards in such a way that it exacerbated the existing rot, which caused even ( Read more... )

It has been a hard month here. Steve has slipped a bit more, still not so much that his dementia is super obvious to folks outside the house. But we notice it here, and it's tough for us ( Read more... )