Beyond dementia

hello everyone. I’ve been thinking about how my road to dementia started. At least the things Ive noticed over the last 3 or so years. The very first thing I thought was odd, was I was following my friend out of a room. I was saying something to her, and my talking stopped cold. No words came out. My mind was literally blank. I looked to my right and there was a “table” . But I didn’t know the word. I kept staring at the object knowing I needed the name of this object, but nothing came out. I went home still trying to come up with the word. I woke up in the middle of the night…and it finally came to me..the word was table. That kind of thing..word finding..difficulty continued more and more frequently. Fast forward to today..it now happens every day. Some days I chose not to speak to anyone because it’s frustrating. The other sign that began happening more and more was forgetting in general. I forget people’s names every day. My way of dealing with it is not calling anyone by name. I lost my sense of smell over a year ago. It really hit home when I walked into my friend’s house on Thanksgiving day…where she had been cooking for hours…and I realized I couldn’t smell anything. I do have a sense of taste though. These are the things I’ve been thinking about today. What am I grateful for? My cat Oliver. My apartment. Having good friends. I have a lot to be grateful for. Talk soon