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Re: How do you hold it together and respond kindly?
it takes some time it’s 3?yrs diagnosis and I’m first understanding. Zoloft doesn’t hurt either haha5 -
Re: How do you hold it together and respond kindly?
Venting is cathartic. You have a safe place here. Some friends and family tell me I can vent to them, but I try to limit my venting because I know it would be tiresome to the kind listener. I’ve been…5 -
How do you hold it together and respond kindly?
Hi there - I think i mostly need to vent ... again. <sigh> My 73 year old DH has Alz. My best guess is early to mid stage 5. He still does all of his self care and small projects around the hou…5 -
Re: What stage is this.
All good advice and tools above. My DW has a 3 people she communicates with regularly. I’m not sure if she visualizes them or they remain in her head. I’ve learned to talk with her about them rather …5 -
Am I expecting too much from family?
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…5 -
Re: Slipping Away
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 …5 -
Re: Am I expecting too much from family?
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…7 -
Re: I am new to this forum
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…6 -
Re: How do you hold it together and respond kindly?
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 …5 -
The next milestone on this horrid journey
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 …9
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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