Memory Care Monday: Churlish!

November 1, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

Welcome to another Memory Care Monday post! Just a bit of housekeeping before I get to the word of the week. Today is the first day of my November topic, Dementia. But, last month the topic was Obesity. I have been seeing some chatter about obesity being the main reason people were dying from Covid. […]

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Memory Care: Chromosome

October 25, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Hello, and welcome back to another Memory Care Monday post. When I first started this blog, at the end of 2018, my most popular posts were these learn a new word a week posts. I don’t recall why I stopped doing them, but I got to #10 out of 100 on the list. Since I […]

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Be mindful of your brain: learn a new language

June 21, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

Hello, and welcome to Monday! These last 9 days in June will be dedicated to Brain Health. Dementia and Alzheimer’s are diseases of the brain. Along with general Brain Health I will focus on Dementia and Alzheimer’s as well. But for today’s post I am going to discuss Language Learning and how it can help […]

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How well do you know your kidneys?

April 20, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

This post was intended for yesterday, however, WordPress has not been working correctly. Anyway. How well do you know your kidneys. I have been talking about Stress in the month of April, and last week I discussed Stress and the kidneys. But, do you know what your kidneys are, where they are, or exactly what […]

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What is the Difference Between Sanitizing and Disinfecting? Plus, What My Family Meal Plan Looks Like for This Week.

March 9, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Happy Monday! Unless you have been living under a rock you know that there is a lot of talk about this Novel Covid-19 virus. I am paying particular attention because I work in the Health Care field, and I have CKD. It is super important to me to keep me, my family and my patients […]

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The MIND Diet

September 9, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Returning to an old, but popular article topic, Memory Care. I just read about a new diet that studies have shown may decrease the risk of getting Dementia, or Alzheimer’s. The MIND diet, which is a variation of the DASH diet and the Mediterranean Diet. The MIND diet focuses a lot on berries that boost […]

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Memory Care Monday: How Memories are Made

July 15, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Happy Memory Care Monday! I hope everyone had an amazing weekend. I worked all weekend, and I am still deciding if these 12 hour shifts are going to work well for me. The video below is very interesting, and explains how our brains make memories. It is not that long, about 10 minutes, so give […]

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Memory Care Monday: Revisit Old Memories With Photos

July 8, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Updated 10/18/2021 Hello all my wonderful readers! Today, for Memory Care Monday, I am going to tell you about one of my most favorite things, taking and looking at pictures. Now these serve two different types of memory, short term, and long term. Taking new pictures, and then looking at them in 6 months, or […]

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Memory Care: Circumlucotion

April 8, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Updated 11/8/2021: I realized after I thought I picked up on the list where I left off, that I actually covered more words than I thought. Before I get to this week’s word, I was contacted by someone who wanted to know what it means to give medical advice, and why I would not do […]

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Memory Care Learn A New Word A Week Challenge: Belie

February 11, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Updated 11/01/2021 Woot woot here comes the next word in our weekly challenge. Belie is the word to memorize for this week. Look up the definition of this word then in your journal write the word and the definition 10 times. Then say it out loud 10 times. Then try to use belie in a […]

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AKF Kidney Class Week #3 January 19, 2022
Happy Humpday! Today is week 3 of the AKF Kidney Class. I am a Kidney Coach, and each week I share another slide from the program that I would have done in person if Covid hadn’t come around. The slides are the property of AKF and I have permission to share them here on this [...]
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Pantry Food Challenge With CKD and My Very Small Haul January 18, 2022
Welcome to another Healthy tip on Tuesday! Today, my healthy tip, especially if you are doing a food pantry challenge, is to do an inventory of your pantry. We seriously have way more food than I even thought we did. We did a complete inventory yesterday. I am almost embarrassed to say, but I have [...]
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A Mindfulness Photography Challenge and Week 1 Pantry/Budget Challenge Review! January 17, 2022
Happy Monday! I think I will repeat this Mindfulness challenge each month with a different theme. A very important part of Mindfulness is being present at the moment, observing your surroundings and how they make you feel. I love being outdoors in nature and all the beauty that goes with it. I also love photography. [...]
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Who Likes Squats? January 14, 2022
I would say most people do not like to do squats, but some people probably do. The other day I was reading an article on bone health and preventing Osteoporosis. With CKD you know how important bone and muscle health is. Squats were considered one of the best weight- bearing exercises you could do for [...]
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Living With CKD Pantry Challenge What We Ate 1/12-1/13 January 13, 2022
Hello, and happy Thursday. The weekend is coming and that means I will be at work. The hardest time for my family to follow the food budget is the weekends when I work. Last week I purchased lots of extra stuff for them to be able to prepare quick dishes. The purpose of the Pantry [...]
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Kidney Class: The Kidneys! January 12, 2022
Hello, and welcome to the first slide in the AKF Kidney Class. Today, I will share what the kidneys do. I did a detailed post about this last year, and you can read it here. Please be sure and look at the image with the information about the kidneys on it. The kidneys are two [...]
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Living With CKD Pantry Food Challenge January 11, 2022
So, if you read my post yesterday then you know I have two challenges for the whole year in 2022. The budget challenge is to save extra money, and you know what my phone died last night and I had to get a new one. So, isn’t that interesting! Anyway, I will try to post [...]
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A New Food Budget Challenge And Pantry Cooking With CKD January 10, 2022
Hello, and welcome to another Mindful Monday topic. Part of Mindfulness is being aware of what you are spending your hard-earned money on. All of 2021 we spent paying off debt, and not buying more stuff unless it was with cash as much as possible. We spent down so much of our debt and were [...]
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Kidney Class: Introduction January 5, 2022
Hello, and Happy Humpday. Below you will see an image which is the first slide in the AKF Kidney Class presentation. If I was doing this in person with you, this is the very first slide you would see. I will upload a new slide every Wednesday. Each slide will have an explanation, plus links [...]
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What To Expect On This Blog In 2022! January 3, 2022
Happy New Year! I worked all weekend, per usual, and it was a doozy. I slept so well last night that I am wondering if every day should be a doozy, lol. On Saturday I had a step count of 16,500 steps and Sunday 14,500 steps. That is a lot of steps! Before I get [...]
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Memory Care Monday: Churlish!

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Memory Care: Chromosome

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Be mindful of your brain: learn a new language

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How well do you know your kidneys?

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What is the Difference Between Sanitizing and Disinfecting? Plus, What My Family Meal Plan Looks Like for This Week.

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The MIND Diet

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Memory Care Monday: How Memories are Made

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Memory Care Monday: Revisit Old Memories With Photos

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Memory Care: Circumlucotion

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Memory Care Learn A New Word A Week Challenge: Belie

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