What FTD Looks Like: Part 1 – Apathy sets in
In 2017, two years after the “Europe incidents,” Robert stopped listening to the people around him and was often mentally absent, off on a tangent in his mind…
May 2023
Before Dementia: Part 1 – The man I met
We met at a Thanksgiving dinner in 1982. Robert was taking a creative writing class at UT-Austin and his professor, David, was fond of his wild…
Our Journey: Part 2 – Signs of trouble
We first noticed Robert’s judgment falter in 2015 during a trip to Europe with our then-15-year-old son, Jackson. My husband has always had a great…
Our Journey: Part 1 – Where we started
My husband, Robert, was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) in 2017. Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease when they hear the “D” word…