Post #950227

I used to write the occasional post about friends and family and how they weren't doing so great in the earlier COVID years. I haven't done that in a while, really just because everyone's sick all the time, while saying they're great, and you either realize it or you don't. But, my wife just came in and told me that her mom has officially been diagnosed with early onset advanced dementia, and I had to go find my old Mastodon account on a different instance to see the last time I wrote about her. Turns out it was December 2022 and I wrote "she's basically exactly what you see in the movies when they're trying to show you that someone's beginning the decent into dementia." https://qoto.org/@BE/109502339097661042 That was after just a couple/few COVID infections. I have no idea how many she's had since then, but I have heard through the grapevine that my father-in-law started wearing a mask to the grocery store at some point in more recent times, after refusing to even wear one to see his grandkids previously. So I guess there's been some progress there, even if too late for his wife. Anyway, I just wanted to make sure that was out there as yet another cautionary tale.