This journey Homer is on, not a easy one and not full of answer’s… Usually we have more question’s than we get answer’s… But the Neurologist reminds me, they are still learning too and because of that we address Homer’s dementia symptoms for what they are…

Symptom’s… Once I took the blinder’s of wife off, I started going back in the past and looking for all the weird, unpredictable and confusing behavior Homer exhibited for at least 30 years, before the diagnosis in 2025…

Getting the diagnosis was confusing and over whelming, due to the mixed dementia, the vascular disease and the auto accident at 18 injuring the frontal lobe… taking all that into consideration and then you throw the broken neck in and being a alcoholic… Yea, it came down to???

Which of the above was causing everything I was seeing??? and when I had Neuro test Homer on Hawaii… He passed, not one cognitive issue and when I had him go through a sleep study years before that, he passed, no issue !!!! a million frustrated emojis!!!

Getting my head around everything I observed for near 32 years here real soon, I contacted the neuro and started pushing for medications to help with every thing I mentioned above and we started that, late last summer around September 2025 and I threw in 3 puppies in the mix to help with the depression… (I should see a shrink!!)

As the months passed and the new meds we got Homer on made a difference, but we were still missing the mark on bedtime sleep and every morning I knew, he wasn’t getting any…

A couple weeks ago I contacted neuro and because Homer is on some dangerous meds, pain meds are by doctor orders only, and anything that would give him some respite was worth a try… They gave us 2 choices… Gabapeten or Lyrica… Gabapeten was the choice by neuro…

After uping the dosage to 300mg nightly, along with the other meds he takes for sleep… Homer is now doing this annoying little thing….

Telling me were I left this or that in the garage or outside… Kind of nice to see the old him again…

It’s not a cure and it won’t change the progression of the disease… What my goal was when we contacted neuro, reducing the inflamation in the body and sleep is one of the best ways and it’s working…

Homer won’t slow or stop the progression of the disease… but we can be aware of what makes it harder for the disease to take hold and fight those areas and when he tells me something like I left my slippers outside and not under my desk…

He’s paying attention and with dementia… that is a huge win…

I remember…

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