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  • Re: Help with my sister

    https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/256765#Comment_256765 @GothicGremlin Thank you so much for getting back to me. I haven't been able to come back here until now because I am so overwhe…
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  • Re: Am l really losing her now?

    https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/257826#Comment_257826 Thanks, WC. I appreciate your kind words. Each of us has a distinct path we are on with this disease. I guess I’m just needing to sha…
  • Queen of my Castle ?

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  • Re: $300 speaker

    https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/257788#Comment_257788 ouch! That’s a big one. I feel worse for you now than for myself.
  • Am l really losing her now?

    My DW is 72. She was diagnosed MCI 12 years ago. The last two weeks things are changing. She asks if I’m her husband, sometimes with a frightened look on her face and sometimes with an embarrassed lo…
  • I'm in the moderately severe stagr

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  • Re: What do you to talk about with your LOs?

    https://alzconnected.org/discussion/74496/what-do-you-to-talk-about-with-your-los My DH always complains that he's loosing the ability to speak because he doesn't speak with anybody for day…

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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