Alzheimer's Disease Support Group
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration with declining activities of daily living and neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes. An early symptom is memory loss (amnesia), usually manifesting as minor forgetfulness that becomes pronounced with illness progression, with relative...
One thing that I can't seem to overcome, not doing projects.
I have so many things I want to do, need to do but EVERYTHING is difficult to accomplish with him around. I just don't do it because I feel like, it's not worth the effort. For example, I would like to go out and trim some bushes, dead head my roses but I don't because he will be there, hovering over me and very 5 minutes he will want to go to the bathroom or have something to drink or eat and I will be interrupted so I just don't bother, Sometimes I push myself and do something but then half way through after he has interupted I get this feeling, "why do I even bother? It isn't worth the effort."
I have so many things I want to do, need to do but EVERYTHING is difficult to accomplish with him around. I just don't do it because I feel like, it's not worth the effort. For example, I would like to go out and trim some bushes, dead head my roses but I don't because he will be there, hovering over me and very 5 minutes he will want to go to the bathroom or have something to drink or eat and I will be interrupted so I just don't bother, Sometimes I push myself and do something but then half way through after he has interupted I get this feeling, "why do I even bother? It isn't worth the effort."
He used to take a couple of naps but lately he just walks around talking all day.
If I am on the phone he trys to talk to me because he thinks I am talking to him.
He goes to his first day care on Tuesday. I am starting with 4 hours I am hoping it will help him to get out . It wasn't that long ago he would walk around the yard or sit in a lawn chair and watch me work.
He has changed so much in the last month.
Ron has brain damage from the heart episodes in 2005. His speech was pretty much wrecked totally coming out of that...and I spent so much time with rehabs and speech therapy trying tryng and now I mostly wish he would't try to talk because it is --except for a few minor exceptions --listening to word salad all the time and it drives me crazy...makes me sad too....he was very articulate we used to talk a lot...
There is nothing good, easy or nice about this horror called Alzheimer's - for anyone.