Inbox Q and A: Why Aren't There Any Posts by Romeo in Dementiaville?

This is a great question. I would love to have Romeo write something for this blog. He'd be able to give us an insider's view of what it's like having dementia, living in a nursing home. He'd be able to tell us how his thoughts form, how it feels to lose them, what he feels when he can't remember something.

The only answer to why there aren't any blog posts by Romeo is simply: he can't put the words together, he can't find the words to say more than a phrase or two, and even those are largely incoherent.

It takes much time for me to pull information out of him. What I manage to "catch" must also then be sifted -- is it really what he means? is he remembering it correctly? is it true, or does it come from Dementiaville?

So that's why his words on this blog are limited to only a few. It's how he speaks, it's what is real. He couldn't write an entire post, he lacks the thought processes to think in terms of an entire post, and he has no desire to sort out his thoughts and words because he gets lost in the random jumble of them. The only way out for him is to jump out of the thought process completely, to abandon it, to leave it as his personality is surely leaving him.