Wait? What?!
Some days are a bit of a challenge around home but we always try to find a way to makes things light and continue to look for the bright side as often as we can.
Although a topic for a much longer series of posts, Terri has been diagnosed with a rare brain disease, Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy (Autoimmune) (HE). Among its many varying symptoms and issues the ability to communicate will at times have us use “Identification by Description” (IDxD) for Terri to get her point across. Fortunately this is not often but it can be infuriating, frustrating and downright demoralizing when it does but being together for over 20 years we know each other well enough that it works.
Coming up with this little acronym gave us both reason to laugh … and laughter is the best medicine!
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Thanks honey, but you didn’t give an example of IDxD, here’s one: the wood thing down the hall = door. We also play Terri’s charades for when I can get any words out and I even have all my doctors in on both of these games. An example; the other day at the family doctor’s office, I was getting my pre-surgery physical and when it was done I had some questions for him. First I asked if my mammogram came back, he found it and we discussed it. Then I had another test done and I asked, did the other test come back, he said which one, I thought about it and took my index finger on my right hand and was jabbing the top of my head, him and Ed both guessed EEG and I said yes. So if you ever come to our house to visit you will have to play games with me.
@Terri – Yes, examples would have been good. Thanks for sharing some recent ones. Love you!!