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Re: Update on DW
My wife is also in stage 7, in memory care, on hospice, confined just as yours is. I'm also waiting for the end. I have decided that I will not bring her home because I don't want her dying…10 -
Re: How many caregivers are keeping their spouses at home until the nightmare ends?
My wife is in stage 7 at memory care and I will not be bringing her home. I want my home to be remembered for the joy it once held, not for the sad place where my wife died.7 -
Re: How many caregivers are keeping their spouses at home until the nightmare ends?
That was plan but after 6-8 years of caregiving which had become 24/7 for several years I finally had to place my DW. Hardest thing I have ever done when I dropped her off, they ushered her in, locke…9 -
Parents Against Me
Has anyone else experienced their parents completely turning on them? My parents were both narcissistic before dementia, and it’s been a nightmare since the disease progressed. I moved them out of th…5 -
Re: Hospice and another fall
I'm new here. I read your post and I think hospice is the best step you can take. My DW suffers from VD (that doesn't sound right, does it?). Anyway, she has been under hospice care for abo…3 -
Re: Grief Counseling: Yay or Nay?
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/258093#Comment_258093 Thank you! You are most welcome.1 -
Update on DW
I haven't been around in a while but thought I'd post and update on how my DW is doing. She has been in MC and hospice for over a year now and on comfort meds. MC has been both good and bad…18 -
Re: The pain of living with ALZ
So sorry you too have experienced this moment. It is and was for me the hardest moment in this journey for sure and the one you don’t forget. So hard to believe it has robbed my DH of any memory of o…7 -
Re: The pain of living with ALZ
It was one of the hardest things on this journey. I knew it was coming but I thought that we had been through so much already that it wouldn't bother me. I was wrong. I made a latte every mornin…10 -
Re: Significant other confusion
Yes. We went through a time when he thought there was more than one of me. It confused him but to him it was real. That was one of the things, along with forgetting we were married that really made m…1
Commonly Used Abbreviations
DH = Dear Husband
DW= Dear Wife, Darling Wife
LO = Loved One
ES = Early Stage
EO = Early Onset
FTD = Frontotemporal Dementia
VD = Vascular Dementia
MC = Memory Care
AL = Assisted Living
POA = Power of Attorney
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