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Kimberly’s 71st Birthday Celebrated at Lilac City Friends

Kimberly's 70th birthday was on May 6, and family needed reminders to celebrate it, but Kimberly did not know that it was her birthday.

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June 1, 2025

Caregivers / Dementia

A Little Gift from Heaven

A little gift from heaven can make a difference in someone's life! My older son Micheal introduced me to a classmate he went to school with. It turned out that she was a nurse with experience with dementia. In February and March 2024, she donated her time to be a…

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June 24, 2024

Caregivers / Dementia

Kimberly’s 70th Birthday Came and Gone!

Kimberly's 70th birthday was on May 6, and family needed reminders to celebrate it, but Kimberly did not know that it was her birthday.

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June 1, 2024

Caregivers / Dementia

Mother’s Ultimate Heartache

Losing a child is the worst type of trauma a mother will ever go through. It was a sad day a couple of weeks ago when we bid farewell to a nurse who...

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April 6, 2024

Caregivers / Dementia

Happy Birthday to Me

Last night, Kimberly was asleep on the incliner sofa, and I was watching TV when a notice appeared saying, “Spring Ahead!” I thought to myself that the next morning was not going to start on the right foot. We would lose another hour of sleep, and I had to turn…

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March 10, 2024

Caregivers / Dementia

My Heart Breaks

My heart breaks whenever my wife Kimberly asks me, “Why does my head hurt?” As I watch her rub her forehead and temples. With her short-term memory gone, she would not remember what I would say to her. Those are the areas where the degeneration is going on in your…

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February 13, 2024

Kimberly & Leon Frechette

Welcome to Kimberly’s Corner, where we share Kimberly’s ongoing battle with behavioral variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD ) and my survival as an unpaid spouse caregiver with her ongoing daily changes with this disease. I will say upfront, this is not a happy journey!

If you are a full-time caregiver, just starting out as a spouse caregiver, or have been there, done that, please use this site to vent, learn, share your story, and ask questions. You will soon find out that the system is broken when it comes to supporting you as a caregiver. The system will not work in your favor, so changes are needed to help spouse caregivers survive their ordeal.

For that reason, it is important to share your voice on this site. The more voices we can get, the better chance we have to make changes. If you have questions or stories you want to share, please email them to me, Leon, Kimberly’s husband!