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Our journey with dementia is a story about my husband Joe, a Slovenian migrant, finding shortcuts to quickly re-establishing himself in Australia. He first became a sugar cane cutter, then moved to work on Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric project before he built a home in Canberra where he worked as an electrical contractor. He came to Lightning Ridge for Christmas 1968 holiday and found a two carat gem red on black opal; he also caught the opal fever and that sealed our fate. Lightning Ridge with miners as colourful as the gem they search for, this outback post became our home.
The story is about Joe’s loss of memory, skills, and life; it is about the grieving and about overcoming grief. I kept a diary of signs, symptoms, and progression of Joe’s dementia from 2004 until he died on 18.2.2013.
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