tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1397213 2011-05-25T18:09:48-04:00 Keeping Track of My Father's Exit. By Alan G. Ampolsk TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83420296e53ef01543289d9da970c 2011-05-25T18:09:48-04:00 2011-05-25T18:08:37-04:00

So... when I left off the story, the situation was this... It was the middle of 2002. Over the previous year, there'd been a couple of major family upheavals. But they were pretty firmly rooted in a long history of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DementiaNights/~4/a7-SJ5Vd0Yo" height="1" width="1"/>

Alan G. Ampolsk http://www.metaphorcountry.com/dementia_nights/2011/05/things-go-south.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83420296e53ef014e885e9a23970d 2011-05-11T15:00:22-04:00 2011-05-11T15:00:22-04:00

Apologies. I hadn't meant to go silent for nearly this long. I could offer you plenty of explanations - workload has been heavy, the economy has picked up, I need to make up for billings I lost during the last...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DementiaNights/~4/iNXSQo6frtE" height="1" width="1"/>

Alan G. Ampolsk http://www.metaphorcountry.com/dementia_nights/2011/05/after-a-hiatus-picking-up-the-threads.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83420296e53ef0134897e6ed2970c 2010-11-24T19:13:26-05:00 2010-11-24T19:13:26-05:00

The past couple of years I've written Thanksgiving entries, agonizing over whether to be thankful and how, and what to be thankful for. Two years ago, there was this series. Before that, there were other Thanksgiving agonies - Thanksgiving 2003,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DementiaNights/~4/PQWujBOzFTs" height="1" width="1"/>

Alan G. Ampolsk http://www.metaphorcountry.com/dementia_nights/2010/11/thanksgiving-after-the-smoke-clears.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83420296e53ef01348935c11f970c 2010-11-23T18:45:55-05:00 2010-11-23T18:45:41-05:00

Wow. Hadn't actually realized I'd been gone for a couple of months. Sorry - I hadn't meant to disappear like that. Sincere apologies to all regular readers and posters. I've appreciated your recent comments - it's nice to be reminded...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DementiaNights/~4/MYoyShfikmU" height="1" width="1"/>

Alan G. Ampolsk http://www.metaphorcountry.com/dementia_nights/2010/11/because-youre-dead-thats-why.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83420296e53ef013487129901970c 2010-09-07T16:55:49-04:00 2010-09-07T16:55:49-04:00

I'm still not nearly as active here as I'd like but I've been busy behind the scenes - sifting and filing and discarding material, both figuratively and literally. Re: the latter - it's roughly a year since I got started...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DementiaNights/~4/xvQnrkETIug" height="1" width="1"/>

Alan G. Ampolsk http://www.metaphorcountry.com/dementia_nights/2010/09/the-naming-of-cats-and-other-alzheimers-evidence.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83420296e53ef013485fcfe1f970c 2010-08-05T18:45:22-04:00 2010-08-05T18:45:22-04:00

Well... I thought I was about to regain momentum on the blog, but apparently not yet. It's long, this recovery process. I'm beginning to think that the issues are less psychological than physical. It's like this - you hold yourself...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DementiaNights/~4/h6DlJ_WU9UQ" height="1" width="1"/>

Alan G. Ampolsk http://www.metaphorcountry.com/dementia_nights/2010/08/they-are-emptying-out-the-world-or-1955-draws-to-a-close.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83420296e53ef01348529eedb970c 2010-07-02T16:43:55-04:00 2010-07-02T16:43:55-04:00

I dream about my father often. An acquaintance who's supposed to know tells me this is a good thing - most people don't dream about a deceased parent so soon after the death. She tells me it's a sign of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DementiaNights/~4/akFhSK-X1co" height="1" width="1"/>

Alan G. Ampolsk http://www.metaphorcountry.com/dementia_nights/2010/07/how-it-started-or-dreaming-alzheimers.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83420296e53ef0133f189a6d1970b 2010-06-21T15:50:41-04:00 2010-06-21T15:50:41-04:00

Opened my New York Times this morning and was treated to the breaking news - in a below-the-fold front-page story, no less - that the elderly hallucinate in hospitals. Uh, right. Stop press. This changes everything. Actually, to be fair,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DementiaNights/~4/yhUDYWmERnE" height="1" width="1"/>

Alan G. Ampolsk http://www.metaphorcountry.com/dementia_nights/2010/06/this-just-in-the-elderly-hallucinate-in-hospitals-says-new-york-times.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83420296e53ef013484ac2380970c 2010-06-20T18:36:00-04:00 2010-06-22T16:18:05-04:00

Today is the first Father's Day since my father died and I'm feeling... well, the truth is that I'm feeling nothing at all, except a sense of relief that I don't have to deal with him in the setting of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DementiaNights/~4/06ZSQSvlJxM" height="1" width="1"/>

Alan G. Ampolsk http://www.metaphorcountry.com/dementia_nights/2010/06/the-first-fathers-day-of-the-postfather-era.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83420296e53ef0133f1757689970b 2010-06-18T15:04:05-04:00 2010-06-18T15:44:53-04:00

So. More than four months since he died. More than two months since my last entry. I hadn't meant to go silent for that length of time. But then, I hadn't expected anything that's happened since all this started. Why...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DementiaNights/~4/oysRt3EBSRQ" height="1" width="1"/>

Alan G. Ampolsk http://www.metaphorcountry.com/dementia_nights/2010/06/digging-out.html