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- I haven't posted for a long time. It has been a rocky road with different issues all the time with my husband in the nursing home.I have finally decided to hire someone privately for a few hours a week so that she can keep an eye on him and I can...
- I have been on carbamazapine for some 3 years. Since I have not had an attack in at least a year I decided I would reduce my meds by half. After a few days I got sharp pains behind the rt ear where I had the TN and it moved to the back of the head....
- Since my mom died and I have had more time I have been going in to give my husband most of his meals at the nursing home.He often used to tell me to "get out" at the end of the meal and I would leave.Now he is doing something he never did since he...
- As I wrote earlier, my mom died at the beginning of December, my husband is in long term care and doesn't know me. I never thought I could feel such emptiness. I held on bravely through the memorial service and clearing out my mom's place but now...
- It has been a very stressful 3 months with mom's health deteriorating day by day. She broke her hip at the end of Octobe, never recovered, and passed away yesterday. I spent ages looking at nursing homes, hoping she could go where my husband is only...
- I got a call last night to say my mom had fallen in her bathroom and fractured her hip. As I mentioned earlier, she is almost 91 and her health is fragile. I spent the whole day at the hospital with her and what is really distressing is that she is...
- I met a wonderful woman on an Alzheimer website some years ago and we became close friends. It was a shock this week to learn of the unexpected death of her husband at age 67. He developed pneumonia and was unable to respond to antibiotics. My...
- I'm so tired I feel ready to collapse and then who will be there for my husband and my mom? She came out of hospital in worse shape than she went in but there is nothing more they can do. She does have the help of personal support workers but I'm...
- I'm back on the roller coaster. My mom was hospitalized with congestive heart failure for the second time in a month so I am running between the hospital in another town and my husband in the nursing home. He can't understand what's going on and my...
- My 90 year old mom is now in hospital with congestive heart failure and my husband had a weak spell tonight. I just hope he does not end up in hospital too. Last year I had them both in at t the time in different towns!I was so thankful that my...
- My husband's behaviour at the nursing home has become difficult again. He is fine as long as he is left alone to sit in the lounge. As soon as anything is asked of him eg to come to the dining room he starts screaming and resists being helped up out...
- I don't know if I mentioned before that my husband's only brother has not visited for months and apparently cannot deal with his brother's AD any other way.This evening a maintenance man who is from the same country as my husband came by and my...
- My husband has been in the nursing home almost 3 months and now he is begging me to take him home. I try to tell him that he needs to get stronger and that I can't take care of him right now or variations on that theme. Of course it does not get...
- I'm finding myself getting more and more depressed as the rejection of me by my husband continues. I know it is the disease and he would never act this way towards me but it's getting harder and harder to take.I'm thinking that I should get...
- My husband who was screaming at me, hitting workers and other residents in his nursing home has had a change in meds and has been a different person for the past 2 days.He is now on an anti-psychotic drug and I know there is much written about the...