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The Beginning

In four days, I go to get a second opinion of whether I have Lewy Body Disease or not. What a funny spot to be in. Hoping it is so it can explain what has been going on these past few years, and hoping it is not because I don't want to go through what can happen in the coming years. And yet, here I sit, worried about both outcomes and wanting neither. So many emotions in just the past 4 months when the Doctor used the words Diffused Lewy Body Disease. Lots of tears and "What am I going to do now" questions. So many "oh, so that's why" moments where the working diagnosis seems to explain so much of why these past few years have been so difficult. It started because I couldn't remember words; simple every day, nothing out of the ordinary, words. Conversations with friends became difficult as I tried to share my thoughts on a particular subject. It was half storytelling and half the game of Password, trying to help my partner figure out the word I could not...
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It's Just a Cucumber

Saturday I went shopping with my friend MP. (She has been helping me with my finances and was showing me how to do my grocery shopping with less money). We were checking out our groceries at the self-checkouts. MP was at one and I was at another. Not a big deal normally, but this time it was.  I was scanning my purchases when I came to the grapes. I needed to look up the item and could not remember the word "grapes". It was only for a moment, so, no big deal. I scanned a couple more items and then I came to the cucumber. What an unassuming vegetable a cucumber is. It is green like so many other vegetables and Its flavor is fairly bland so I like to add seasoning salt and lime or ranch dressing. It is not a very expensive vegetable either and yet It stole something from me.  You see, I couldn't remember the word "cucumber". Unlike the word "grape", the word for this unassuming vegetable refused to come to my mind. It seemed the harder I searched for the...
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