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Six Months Since Moving
It has been six months since we moved two states from our hometown of 72 years to be near our daughter. DH has ALZ. I am still profoundly homesick! I miss everything I left behind, my older brother, …7 -
Re: Constant 😴 sleeping.
My SO had Alsheimer's dementia and as her condition progressed, she was sleeping 20 hours a day. All she wanted to do was to lie down. I and our part time caregiver were having a difficult time …14 -
Re: Let me whine.
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/227553#Comment_227553 I sometimes read the discussions to see if what I am feeling is crazy, but have never reached out. Although, I have great kids and am…13 -
Re: Just want to apologize
Ed, I wanted you to know, so thank you. You are one of many who helped me over the last four years and I think of you often, including these last few days. I feel as you have that I will need to step…6 -
Re: Just some thoughts
@ghphotog I read your post with tears in my eyes for all of us who are at this end stage. After three weeks of paradoxical lucidity where DH was laughing, speaking in complete sentences, initiating c…5 -
Re: Just some thoughts
gh have faith, even when we think God has abandoned us, He is there for us and will see us through this. My faith in Him is what is seeing me through the most difficult time in my life. In a way I kn…6 -
Re: The other shoe has dropped
just responded to Ed’s thread also. I don’t think I would have made it through the last four years without this group. You all are so kind to say that my voluminous posts might have helped you-often …11 -
Re: Today is our anniversary
Honor the love you still have. He may not know it today, but I truly think deep down that love is still there. You show that love every day in caring for him and he showed it when he still could. I k…7 -
Re: Today is our anniversary
my DH also doesn’t remember anniversaries birthdays or sometimes even my name or who I am. I was so very sad when this started happening and cried buckets of tears, but now I smile with a twinkle in …6 -
Re: Rough Week
White Crane- I’m sorry these problems are added to your bucket. Thank goodness, though, you saw your physician and he/she caught it. I hope your glasses can be reetched to provide you with single vis…5
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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