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Re: What Is Looking After Yourself
Thank you so much you have all opened my eyes to taking care of myself unreservedly. Still not sure how I’ll do this but I I’ll use all the resources I can find.2 -
Re: What Is Looking After Yourself
I wish I could get the VA to help us. They denied my husband because they said, he was JUST in the Army Reserves. My husband literally had to hold me back.2 -
Re: What Is Looking After Yourself
I have a wonderful caregiver who cooks and does laundry for us. She’s here 3 days a week for 4 hours. I’m lucky to live near a beach. So. I get a beach walk at my own pace. I shop or meet someone for…11 -
Re: STAGE 8 - There is no other side of grief...
I will be facing stage 8 sometime in the next 6 months or three years. I am finding that I am already going through a period of grief as I watch my DH slowly die.5 -
Re: Skilled nursing care vs memory care
When I realized that I was going to have to place my DH in some sort of institutional care (for numerous reasons), I had a local agency administer him the NY State Patient Review Instrument (PRI). He…3 -
Re: Just venting
Not that I wish this on anyone, but I'm glad to know that others hear the same words I hear over and over and over. It does get old.7 -
Re: STAGE 8 - There is no other side of grief...
Have the holidays and her birthday coming up over the next month since she left us about 4 months ago. Not looking forward to it. Will do my best to attend holiday dinners and keep it together but th…4 -
Re: Just venting
Same here too. It’s everyday really. 1:30am wanted the keys to the car, punched my bedroom door a few times. And now today.. “ you need to move, I’m a grown adult and don’t need you.”6 -
Re: I wonder if I am seeing things not there
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/253145#Comment_253145 So many of the same things happening in our lives…we go to dinner with friends or family and my wife for the most part is fine. We ge…2 -
Re: Just venting
Having one here too…actually, most days are like this. Today he detests me because I'm too positive and don't realize how horrible everything is in the world…I'm just a Pollyanna, stup…7
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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