hat swollen, red-hot foot in the screenshot isn’t random. It’s there because dementia doesn’t always begin with memory loss — it can start with balance slips, strange pain signals, restless sleep, and the kind of confusion that makes a familiar room feel slightly off, like the furniture moved in the dark.
The brain is a control tower, and when its wiring starts to fray, the first alarms often show up somewhere else: in your stride, your words, your mood, your eyes. Most people keep calling it “stress” or “getting older,” while the damage quietly spreads through the tissue that should be steering everything.
