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Re: Joining with a thank you
Thank you for sharing. That is a very well written introduction. One thing I tell myself repeatedly as I am traveling this journey is that disease progression does not mean care gets more difficult. …5 -
Re: Hoping he will forget me
Thanks everyone for your kind words and another swift kick in the keister! I’m stalling I know it. We do have a brand new Dr. appt. on Monday. It’s with a geriatric aging center with all the speciali…5 -
Re: Dealing with my feelings of resentment
The resentment is so very real for me. How I wish I could just banish it. The fifteen years of marital bliss just wasn’t there. I soldiered on because of his drug addicted son and then a grandson who…6 -
Re: Dealing with my feelings of resentment
I have Resentment too. My wife had a long term affair with a guy she liked in junior high that started on line in 2005. After I found out about the emailing she said she would stop all contact with h…7 -
Dealing with my feelings of resentment
I'm married to a man who was verbally abusive to me during the first 10-15 years of our marriage. When I tried to leave, he begged me to stay. I regret staying, expecially because of my children…7 -
Re: Need to leave right now
Suicide is never the answer. Your situation is not yours alone; it's shared by thousands of others who have been dealing with the same issues. You can still do this. I know you do not want to, n…5 -
Re: I am forgetting, too
Oh ditto. Same here, I’m very forgetful and “scattered”. I think it’s because of always trying to do everything, while dealing with someone whose behavior is at times out of control. Our brain has li…7 -
Re: Ultimate Answer
Agree totally … BUT: I do recall Jesus on his cross in pain crying out in words of Psalm 22: “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me …..” I trust we can cry out in our despair at times of our inten…5 -
I am forgetting, too
I usually am very organized, but with the stress of a DH with dementia, I am forgetting appts, lose things, and run around and getting nothing done. I know it is because of the caretaking, and am the…10 -
Re: Is it my imagination?
I think also it is the frog in the pot scenario. As your LO very slowly changes, in the beginning, you adapt your view of who they are until you suddenly realize months or years later that the person…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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