What is Alzheimers Disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease, is the most common cause of dementia and characterized clinically by progressive cognitive deterioration together with declin...
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My husband says he wants to be around his adult kids and the grandkids too, but whenever they are here he is so unhappy. He disassociates himself from everyone. Goes to a room by himself and sits and frowns. If the grandkids (ages 4 & 8)make any noise.. like laughing, he comes to me and says I better shut them up or he will. I'm afraid he might hurt them. Whenever he tries to play with them he always ends up playing too rough or bullying the oldest until he makes him cry.
I need my family for emotional support.I don't want them to avoid seeing me. I need to see that there still is joy, happiness and laughter in this world. I don't want to be isolated and spend my life in the prison of being a caretaker for such a hateful, mean man. What can I do? Is there any hope? Posted on 06/08/09, 08:06 am |
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I agree with you where i would not want to stop the disease, not at any point where my mother was no longer my mother, but yes at the bigining when we noticed she was repeating things or loosing stuff, but not at any other time... and we did talk to her dr and said we wanted her off meds because we thought the meds were prolonging her life... the dr corrected us by saying the meds do not prolong her life but they allow them to live a little better and in this case keep my mothers dignity, because in some cases AD patients have walked outside nude, or gone the bathroom in the corner of a roomfull of people, stuff like that... so AD doesnt stop and eventually most patients die of pneumonia or a secondary illness... I do seriously hope they find a cure for it tho, i'd hate to go thru what my mother went thru or put my children thru what we went thru... 
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If a medication could bring my husband back to the person he was I would pay or do anything to get it for him. But unfortunately that is not the case. The meds only help for a while, until the disease takes even more away from him. He's 57 years old and trying desparately to hold on to his independence. If the meds help him with that, that's wonderful. I just wish there was something I could do to make him happy.
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