Category Archives: stroke

Night night Mummy W

Posted on January 28, 2026 by thepogblog

Last Monday Mum played table tennis. On Tuesday she couldn’t remember, so I showed her the photo and she informed me that  ‘actually I was very good at it’.  (Coordination even pre stroke and dementia wasn’t one of Mum’s strengths, … Continue reading →

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A parental update

Posted on January 15, 2026 by thepogblog

It’s been a while (6 months) since I did a video with Mum for all sorts of reasons, but if you were missing her, I did a quick update here including a quick tour of her room, which is really … Continue reading →

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Cracking on with Tuesdays

Posted on December 5, 2025 by thepogblog

This Tuesday I joined Mum for breakfast as there seemed rather a lot to get done and I’ve discovered it is possible to fit more into the day if you simply get up earlier and crack on. However, the level … Continue reading →

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Musical Bingo, anyone?

Posted on November 28, 2025 by thepogblog

Now Mum has moved to the dementia unit at the care home, visiting has become a bit more of a gamble.  There’s a lot more activities for Mum to take part in and the team have no qualms with ‘encouraging’ … Continue reading →

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A bit of honesty

Posted on October 23, 2025 by thepogblog

Dear people in my computer, I think I might have fallen into that social media trap a bit.  You know, the one where you make life look a bit more smiley than it is.  It’s tricky, because nobody wants to … Continue reading →

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I was doing it all wrong…

Posted on September 25, 2025 by thepogblog

This week’s Tuesday included a surprisingly fantabulous trip to a hospital with Dad. It was fantabulous on a number of different levels: Dad’s breathing is better than it has been in ages and he was able to chat.  I heard … Continue reading →

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🎈🎈🎈Happy birthday, Dad!🎈🎈🎈

Posted on September 14, 2025 by thepogblog

Not quite what we had planned, but a damn good cake (my offer to make a chocolate poo was passed over 🤷🏼‍♀️), connecting all of us through the powers of technology and most of us in person too. 💜

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New Digs

Posted on August 11, 2025 by thepogblog

It’s been just over a month since I last wrote here, but it feels more like a year.  How else can so much have happened? the big thing though, is this:  Mum has new digs.  She now lives in a … Continue reading →

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‘Our Place’; an alternative reality

Posted on July 4, 2025 by thepogblog

I used to think dementia was very much about people forgetting. Words, places, people and more. We realised a good while back that for Mum it’s also about some sort of alternative reality that is based on nothing other than … Continue reading →

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Corned Beef Hash pie

Posted on June 27, 2025 by thepogblog

Tuesday this week was…well, I think it’s best to pretend that it didn’t happen. But there was one small success.  I invented the Corned Beef Hash Pie (maybe not actually invented, but I’d not heard of it and definitely not … Continue reading →

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