https://today.usc.edu/traumatic-brain-injury-tbi-alzheimers-disease-usc-research

Brain changes following traumatic brain injury share similarities with Alzheimer’s disease…. Now that is studying white and grey matter…

What is interesting about the subject???

Everything Homer is experiencing, I also experienced as my brain was healing…

The last few years I have been fighting my way out of a surgical anesthesia fog, add COVID twice and 3 more surgeries… My brain was screaming for help and the MRI’s proved why my brain was screaming…

Moderate TBI on the right frontal lobe and bleeds on the brain… Old bleeds, but they were there…

As Homer progress’s with this disease, be it Lewy Body or regular dementia, what he is experiencing with the hearing what was not said, seeing what is not there or not seeing what is there or unable to articulate the words he is trying to express…

I been there… and I don’t have dementia… My MRI is clean for plaques and my blood is clean… but my brain was injured and healing…

There were many times over the decades I heard or saw and nothing was there to hear or see… It was my brain trying to cope with the chaos of so much brain trauma and most of all…. I was aware of what was happening, I knew, I knew, this was because of something other than dementia…

The clues were always there about the brain injuries… The PTSD nightmares I had until the memory trigger because of Sutherland Springs, Texas murders… I just couldn’t seem to connect the dots as I fought out of botched surgeries by the VA and thankfully had good private doctors for the last 3 procedures… They listened… About knocking me out… Go light… and they did and I had no problem with memory…

As I watch Homer cope with what is happening, I know, that what is happening to him is dementia and that the only thing we can do, is go with the flow, work on the language, recognize the hallucinations and continue to stimulate the brain with exercises to promote new pathways…

The exact same thing I taught myself to do, because I never could convince anyone to do a brain MRI until 2019… 1977 till 2019 and the VA finally agreed to do MRI’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Though I haven’t got dementia… I know exactly how Homer feels and what he is experiencing…

My healing brain went through all of what dementia does to a brain, only difference, I was aware…

Lot of the time Homer doesn’t know it is happening anymore…

Keep to a routine, never judge and just be there, is the best advice I can give to any care giver and accept, what comes out of there mouth’s sometimes isn’t them, so you remember for them…

I remember…

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