Welcome. This blog is a report of a short trip I made in December 2019 to visit my grandmother, Ruth, at her retirement home in Champaign, Illinois. In the five years it had been since I last saw her she had developed dementia. This report is an attempt to clarify what was happening to her for the family as much as it was a way for me to make sense of my feelings.
Note: All is backwards! To read about the trip in chronological order, start at the last page and read from bottom to top. There are also links to the posts by date in the righthand column.
-Mira