Oh my goodness, this happens to me all the time! Another reason I don't go out unless I have to.

I have intentions of saying something but then something completely different comes out and I wonder where in the heck it came from LOL.

I guess anymore most of my verbal is that way. I start off right but the sentence goes wrong. Sometimes I know afterward and sometimes I don't till hubby tells me.

I do the same thing typing. I have to re-read everything 30 times to make corrections on words and sentences. Sometimes the words that are typed have nothing to do with what I was thinking when I punched the keys.

It is just weird so I just count on others to forgive me, and if not, oh well.

I've tripped over some old posts on DS and don't remember doing them but they still make sense to my sensibilities, except the ones that got off point. Well here I go off point again!

LOL

Something I've noticed with dementia patients over the years is that there can be confusion about where they live. As the disease progresses the newer memories disappear and the older ones are more prominant. What I'm trying to say here is that at times he may very well NOT KNOW that he is in his own home and he may be frightened that you will make him leave and he doesn't think he has anywhere else to go.
Several of your posts over the last month or so have given me the impression he is moving toward a place where he is not sure that your his wife and that he is at home. As this knowledge fades his anxiety will probably increase and he may become clingy and frightened when he makes mistakes, if he can recognize them.

You are right, Georgia, he forgets who I am and that he is in our home on a daily basis, once I tell him and re-tell him he is VERY relieved for the next hour or so. Sometimes he asks me if I know HIS name! He asks me to marry him and live with him everyday and when I tell him I already do he gets so happy, like a little kid, "Oh good, I'm so glad!" He also orgets his sister's house too and that would be part of his old memory. So yes, he is definitely into Stage 6 Today I was doing some 'deep' house cleaning, dusting, cobwebs, etc and after I was done and was sitting drinking tea he said, "Who was that woman who came here and cleaned our house? She did a nice job didn't she?" I said, yea, she did a good job

I love how he asks you to marry him again and again. There are so many overwhelming parts of these diseases, but this little thing makes me smile. You have true love and someone who would marry you every day again and again.

He may forget at times who you are...but he still knows you are the one he loves...and loves him.

At times my Dad will get lost and tell me that I'm a good nurse...then turn and say...oh...you're my daughter, I knew that, why would I have said that?

I wonder about how information travels through the brain and as routes get blocked if a new path has to be found. Sometimes with success, sometimes not.

Pounder,
I think some of those "lost" memories that get found again do so because over the years we've established dozens (or many more) links to certain memories so even if one link is damaged others can kick in if the brain get's routed in the right direction.
I find it amazing how many people with Alzhiemers forget everyone, including who they are while others remember the important people in their lives right up to the end, I sure would like to know how and why that happens and I hope for my husbands sake that he will be one who remembers me until the end. I know right now he is so fearful that something will happen to me and there will be no one to care for him (of course our daughter will care for him but he doesn't think she will). Finding out last week that I'm diabetic has made him kind of anxious I think. He hasn't said anything but he has definately been in 'hover' mode since then.

maybe it is because the disease affects peoples brains randomly, like in one person the disease starts to attack one area first and then in another person the disease attacks in another place , kind of like a glass of spilled water you never which shape it will take and what will get wet.

I agree that AD affects people very differently. I visited my Mom a few weeks ago with my son (her favourite grandchild) and while she recognized his face and was very happy to see him, she did'nt have a clue as to who he was. She kept asking who he was, when it finally registered that he was my son, she looked at me all funny and said ''Wow, you have a son?

And yet she remembers stuff like I told her I had to leave early for a hairdresser's appointment and then the following week, she looked at me and asked how come my hair was still the same as before, did I not go to the hairdresser's. And another thing, how come she forgets a language that she has been speaking for over 60 years. The last 6 months or so, and it's getting worst, she always speaks in her maternal tongue. We keep telling to speak English because nobody understands her and of course she gets very frustrated because of it.

I think that the first language a person speaks stays with them no matter what, when my mom is tired her accent is stronger and she doesn't have ALZ.

And yes it is weird how they will forget something that is big or important and yet remember something dumb like a hair appointment. Weird.