Deborah48
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- My mom showed our family picture to a friend of her's, his father had ALZ. We took this family picture in February of this year. He looked at it and said, "yes, I recognize that look." This person hasn't met my husband in real life and yet he could...
- I am really dragging and having a hard time pulling myself up off the couch. Everything seems so pointless.
- I hear a lot and read a lot about ALZ people stop talking and while my husband's talking has slowed down a lot, he still does talk a lot. The thing is, he talks gibberish, word salad, what he says makes no sense. He uses very simple vocabulary and...
- Hm, it is now day 2 and Rollie has no clue who I am. Usually it comes and goes but it doesn't seem to be coming back, oh well.
- I am having a bad day. Every time he needs something I feel eother mad or sad at him, I feel like I just don't want to get whatever it is he needs like I want to run out the front door screaming. the thing is that I actually had a break today went...
- Wow, I have been away for a few days and just now read about Ron and it is really affecting me, I suppose we all think we are ready and waiting for the end so that we will all be out of our (patient and caregiver) misery but I don't think we are...
- i am finally home from taking care of my mom, i am wiped out, of course rollie was with me the whole entire time, i didn't feel exhausted until i sat down on the couch and at the moment i am really tired of rollie, i need a spa day!
- My mom had a heart attack today, mild, but still, she is doing ok but wow, I sure wasn't ready for this! Really, He does give us more than we can handle.
- So, I appear to have sprained my ankle and have been immobile today and guess who decides this is the day he will wander? He has been trying to walk out the front door all day. Then he got angry with me because I was using his walking stick (that he...
- Almost all articles refer to life expectancy is 8-12 years from diagnosis. BUT my husband has PTSD and Alzheimer's so I am not sure how that applies, he was diagnosed with PTSD in 1999 but not the Alz until 2008. My gut is that the Alz started long...
- I have noticed recently that Rollie has a hard time doing what he needs his body to do... I can only describe it this way:When it is time for him to get in bed at night I pull the covers back and tell him to lay down, he will look confused so I tell...
- 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...
- I think that I actually may be at a point of acceptance with all of this, it seems like I don't need to vent as often, I don't feel as angry anymore, I feel more at peace with the way things are and what is to come. I still have moments when I get...
- I went AWOL again this weekend, I helped move my mom from her old house 2 1/2 hours away from me to a new house 50 minutes from me. It was a MEGA disaster and took way too much effort and stress, I won't bore you all with the details but my BIL was...
- This disturbed me and I just have to tell someone but I can't think of anyone to share this with.For a couple of hours this afternoon my husband was irritable and kept playing with his 'junk', sticking his hands in his pants. I kept ignoring it and...