What a kind and lovely comment. Thank you so much.

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I'm so sorry you've lost your father at such a young age - not that it's easy any time. I'm glad this brought you a little piece. Sending you hugs.

I've just come out with a book about our family's journey through dementia. You might want to check it out. Along with including 40 paintings, it talks about all the hilarious and heartbreaking stuff we went through. I’m hoping it’ll help remind everyone - not just caregivers or people with loved ones who suffer from dementia - to look for the laughter hiding amidst the pain. shop.emilypageart.com/products/fractured-memories

+Wolf Sings I've launched a campaign on Publishizer to take pre-orders for the book I'm writing about our family's experience with dementia. Just in case you're interested, you can see the full book proposal at publishizer.com/fractured-memories/. And if you'd be willing to help spread the word, that would be amazing!

I've just come out with a book about our family's journey through dementia. You might want to check it out. Along with including 40 paintings, it talks about all the hilarious and heartbreaking stuff we went through. I’m hoping it’ll help remind everyone - not just caregivers or people with loved ones who suffer from dementia - to look for the laughter hiding amidst the pain. shop.emilypageart.com/products/fractured-memories

Thank you.

@@emilyanddad you are very welcome 😁 If only I had been given the diagnosis for my Dad. I'm convinced he also had FTD but the behavioural variant type and it was deeply unpleasant and upsetting. 7 years of struggle: watching him slip away as the aggressive and confused monster replaced his entire loving personality. He died alone this January - I wish it would have been possible to surround him with as much love, care and fun as you did with your dad, of course it's what I naturally wanted to do for him.

@@TheTurboEsprit my dad had the behavioral variant, too, but we got really lucky that, once he passed the point where he realized that his mind was going, he turned back into a sweetie pie. I'm so sorry your dad had such an unfortunate end, and that you're left with regrets. It's a brutal disease.

Yes, we were super lucky that he stayed happy and loving.

Thank you and I'm so sorry to hear about your mom. From what I understand, the average length from diagnosis to death is 2-10 years. That's a pretty wide gap, but shorter than what Alzheimer's patients typically experience. Now, how soon they are diagnosed after symptoms begin certainly affects that time span. My dad passed away 7 years almost to the day that he was diagnosed, but he'd been showing signs for a couple years before he was diagnosed - we just didn't recognize them for what they were. I've just come out with a book about our family's journey through dementia. You might want to check it out. It might give you an idea of what's coming and, hopefully, remind you too look for the laughter where you can find it. shop.emilypageart.com/products/fractured-memories

Thank you! And thank you for your answer! Gosh.. 2-10 years.. That's nothing :'( We don't even have dementia in our family, so it's so weird that she would get that :( She started to become quite unrecognisable Christmas 2015. My sister died in February that year, and one could see in my mother's face that something just clicked in her. on my sisters funeral. First the doctors just thought in was depression and trauma, but my dad din't give up and now we got these awful news 2 weeks ago :'( She is very bad at talking, She can't say any sentences that one can understand.. It's just words here and there. And she cries a lot, and some days she's really happy. But one thing that scares my dad is that she has hallucinations. She often stand infront of windows and talk to someone. And if my dad is in another room, she can go out without him noticing it, and go on to the street and starts shouting loud :( She will probably get medications for her hallucinations, but other than that, what can one do :( She don't recognize things very well either. Like what meatballs are, she thought one should use mustard when you fry the meatballs. :( How long did your dad manage to stay at home after his diagnosis? Did he move into a home quite quick?

There are alarms you can buy that you put on the door that will go off if it's opened. We had to do that for my parents' bedroom because he'd get up and go wandering in the middle of the night and my mom would sleep through it. He was diagnosed in 2009 and we were able to keep him home for about 2 years, but then it just got to be too much, even with 3 of us watching him. There's a chapter in my book about choosing a dementia care facility. There's not a strong genetic link with FTD, so it's not surprising that there's no family history of it. But I am surprised to hear that she's hallucinating, since that tends to be associated more with Alzheimer's than FTD. You might want to talk to her doctor about mood stabilizers. Just be sure to start on the lowest doses possible so that you don't unnecessarily sedate her too much.

Jenny My mother also has this also she got it at 58 years old ,2 years after my father died maybe that's what triggered her,because we didn't have this kind of ilness in our family!

Jazzy An Kazzy Krazzee Yes, he passed away in February. Thank you for your kind words. We miss him like crazy.

Oh sweetheart im so sorry. He was very loved that's for sure.. R.i.p lovely man xoxo💜💖💙

I've just come out with a book about our family's journey through dementia. You might want to check it out. It might give you an idea of what's coming and, hopefully, remind you too look for the laughter where you can find it. shop.emilypageart.com/products/fractured-memories