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Missing my mom
My mom has dementia and she fell a couple of months ago fractured her pelvis and was in the nursing home for a couple of months for rehab. She did come home but we felt she needed more care than what…2 -
Re: Just venting
I was there yesterday, Rhonda! Got to re-group last night and today was better. We all have those days. As others have said I different posts, “Give yourself some grace.” This is HARD work, but we do…4 -
Re: STAGE 8 - There is no other side of grief...
My husband left us 10 days ago. It was not the ending I thought we would face as he died following a fall; I wrote about it a few days ago. Thank you all for the thoughts and feelings about grief and…9 -
Re: What Is Looking After Yourself
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/253525#Comment_253525 I can sense the challenge you faced with caring for your wife. I imagine this progression while caring for my newly-diagnosed husband…1 -
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
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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