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An Attitude of Gratitude

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  It has been several weeks since I have really had the mental energy to sit down and write anything. I keep telling myself to get going and do something constructive, but I usually lose interest or get tired after a short time. In fact, it's taken me several days just to write all this. It's very frustrating, and that's when I know my friend Lewy is messing around with me. There are many topics I've been thinking about, but I wanted to write first about what it's like to go through this journey from a human relationship perspective. I have so much to be grateful for, and that is what I want to focus on in this particular blog.  There is an old saying: When you're up,  Your friends know who you are. When you're down, You know who your true friends are. I think that has perhaps been a very difficult lesson for me as I have walked on this journey and navigated what it means to have a form of dementia that is so often misunderstood. I have quickly learned that...