For This I am Grateful Living with Dementia, By Christine Thelker

I started writing as a way to try to help myself and my doctors understand what was happening to me. Often during my fight to get a diagnosis, I would forget key pieces that I should have told my various doctors. Only by putting things on paper as they happened could I ensure they would get the necessary information. Also, during that time, family members, friends and others asked me to share with them what was happening, so they could try to understand what I was going through.