Family

This time I'd like to talk about my family.

My maternal grandmother had Alzheimer's disease and my father had dementia caused by cerebrovascular disease.

The symptom they both shared was disorientation.

Disorientation is the loss of sense of time, place, or people.

The difference in symptoms was that my father was able to keep track of my mother and me to a certain extent until the end, but my grandmother was no longer able to recognize people or judge the order of things, and she became silent. This is a symptom often seen in Alzheimer's dementia, caused by a decline in the function of the prefrontal cortex, which controls judgment. I believe that she developed the disease in her late 70s, when she lost her emotional balance after losing her sister and husband, who had been her support.

My father suffered from repeated meningitis and mild cerebral infarctions, which led to him developing unilateral somatosensory agnosia, which made it difficult for him to dress himself, and finger agnosia, which made it difficult for him to write or manipulate objects. These are symptoms of dementia caused by cerebrovascular disease.

The cause of his cerebrovascular disease was diabetes, and as it worsened he was placed on artificial dialysis, and the progression of his dementia also accelerated over the last three years of his life.

The final diagnoses were old age for my grandmother and renal failure for my father.

My father evacuated to Chiba when he was a child after the war. Chiba was spared from air raids and had a lot of farmland, so he thought he could earn a living there.

However, there was no consideration given to providing food for the evacuees, and while everyone else at school ate plain rice for lunch, they either ran off to the corner of the schoolyard or brought mashed potatoes instead of their lunch.They were teased for this and felt frustrated.

This past contributed to my appetite, which eventually led to my progression from diabetes to cerebrovascular disease, and then to dementia. It was like a mathematical formula.

The historical backdrop also adds to this sense of the past.

During the period of high economic growth in which my father lived, work was considered a virtue, and there was a TV commercial selling a drink with the slogan, "Can you fight 24 hours a day?"

Smoking is permitted on the station platform and there were many cigarette butts on the tracks.

Eating ramen in the middle of the night to finish off a night of drinking was probably considered good manners for adults back then.

Dialogue with selfishness

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Mindset

Self-care

It may be said that this was not the time to think about the dialogue between the body and mind, but the times have changed to prevention and care, and we are aiming for an inclusive society of "coexistence" rather than self-care.

We hope to see the creation and revitalization of new communities.

My father supported my work.

I remember being told to "create a new radio exercise routine."

It's pretty big, isn't it?