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• Am I expecting too much from family?

  starwood

  4:22AM
  I’m pretty certain my DH aspirated some fluid night before last. I gave him some medication in the night 2 nights ago, and he immediately began with violent coughing episodes with very wet sounding c…
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• Re: Slipping Away

  dayn2nite2

  March 3
  I guess my thought is "why are you injecting "reality" if she is not there? You're making things harder than they need to be. If you can't join her where she is, at least be …
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• Re: Am I expecting too much from family?

  howhale

  11:23AM
  Sorry that you did not get the emotional response from the son expected but I found within my own family that responses varied greatly (none are physicians). It seems often that he or she did not kno…
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• Re: I am new to this forum

  persevere

  March 5
  I am in the don’t bother category. Lots of bad side effects. Unless the patient truly wants it it just seems to add a layer of complexity to an already difficult situation. I’m sure the other camp ha…
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• Re: How do you hold it together and respond kindly?

  shiawase12

  March 5
  You are all so kind. Thank you. It does help to know I'm not alone. Love the idea of keeping an Alz journey file. I have similar on notes in my phone. I have a lot in a Chat GPT file (I used to …
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• The next milestone on this horrid journey

  countrywife

  March 5
  It was a hard afternoon. DH had his license medically suspended in 9/2025 and today we made the trek into the DMV office to surrender the suspended license for a photo ID. It doesn’t change anything …
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• Re: This says it all…

  persevere

  March 2
  Oh my, I was thinking about something similar today and was going to post but I’m compelled to just put it here. I took my DW for a drive today. I knew it would be short and she would get agitated an…
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• Re: My saddest day

  tonyac2

  March 4
  https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/267303#Comment_267303 I hear you. My DH was a talented singer and musician. I dearly miss hearing his beautiful voice. The losses never seem to have an end…
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• Re: Just venting

  tonyac2

  March 4
  https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/267115#Comment_267115 My DH frequently calls me mom, mother and once in awhile, grandmother, ouch I just go with it. I even call myself mom. Keeps him calm…
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• Bathroom troubles

  Bobo59

  March 4
  Forgive me if this has been asked before. My DH no longer knows what the toilet is or what he needs to do when in front of it. I have been assisting with a urinal for him to pee into. (Also, i have a…
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