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Keeping a list , documenting the journey
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Re: How long does it take for a loved one to adjust to memory care
Each and every posting hits the nail on the head. There is no explaining what goes through their minds. My LO went into AL mid-June of this year. He is very "confused" about almost everythi…6 -
Re: How often does this happen.???
I don't think my wife ever apologized for being unreasonably angry with me in 50 years, but now she is very concerned if she thinks I am angry or impatient with her. She is totally dependent on …5 -
Re: What to do?
I also have made sure DW doesn’t have access to any credit cards. I had her social security assigned to me and opened a new account with me only holding the debit card. She had one of her cards saved…9 -
Re: Three Years in Memory Care
We just hit 7 years DW is on hospice5 -
Re: Three Years in Memory Care
My wife doesn't much like blueberries but she wanted to buy blueberry muffins when we were at the market the other day. It took me a while to realize they were primarily a gift for me, the resid…5 -
Re: Slipped right into Stage 7
@clarinetist , I am so sorry. My DH went to the hospital in mid-August for out-of -control agitation. He was released to memory care 3.5 weeks later, then injured himself by deliberately running into…9 -
Slipped right into Stage 7
At the beginning of October my husband lived in a memory care, could walk on his own, feed himself, and say several words, sometimes even a whole sentence. He was partially incontinent. His agitation…15 -
Re: Missing at @M1
Double ditto everyone's comments. As much as I miss M1 and Ed and so many others who have provided so much to this support forum, I hope their absence can only mean that they are healing and hav…7 -
Re: Alzheimer's Progression is not Linear...
Oh Wow…It's my life to a T! I went and talked to his Neurologist by myself and he started him on Seroquel 25mg twice a day and I can go up to 50mg which I just might do…in almost 2 weeks I have …5
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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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