Episode 044 - Dementia won’t steal my father's story… with Fermin Whittaker

The Carlos Whittaker Podcast

That Sounds Fun Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

5.0 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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My dad has advance stage dementia. He can’t carry on a conversation with you for longer than 5 seconds. He no longer knows my wife. He no longer knows his grandchildren. He no longer really remembers anything about his life… But you know what? He is still… Him. I catch glimpses of who he is. There are tiny cracks into his soul that show up like magic every once and a while. But I totally had forgotten about this treasure of a recording I had. When I started noticing his memory problem… I called him and recorded his story. This conversation is 4 years old… And it’s mind blowing how he could never have this conversation now. But I’m so glad I had it with him then. So please enjoy this conversation that may be the most inspiring conversation you have heard in a long time… From my dad, who has dementia… But dementia doesn’t have him… Thanks to our sponsors! https://bit.ly/HHGreenChef130 https://bit.ly/HHAthleticGreens https://bit.ly/HHChime http://www.betterhelp.com/humanhope https://bit.ly/HHAnnieFDowns Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you haven't heard about Anchor by Spotify, well, you probably haven't been listening
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0:10.4	And also, it is what I use to distribute my podcast to your beautiful listening ears.
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1:05.3	Live from the Western shores of Oahu, Hawaii.
1:09.3	I learned to say Hawaii correctly.
1:11.9	Yes, that's right.
1:14.0	My name is Carlos and I'm going to give you my name.
1:17.2	The lowest four short and I'm your host on the human hope podcast episode number, quattro,
1:23.7	44 or 44 episodes into this bad boy.
1:27.2	And guess what?
1:28.6	Now I took a couple of weeks off in December, but we're only four weeks away.
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