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Re: Tips for husbands
All spot on except for shaving legs……I cannot remember shaving my legs in the past 55 years….surely this is one chore you can stop! I would imagine your DW is wearing long pants mostly, anyway.8 -
Re: Do You Ever?
… this phenomenon you speak of was the inspiration for this poem written in 2020- I Correct your Stories The way you tell it is not the way I lived it. what makes me think I could be the grand interp…6 -
Re: Need Reassurance
Sadly, I know that guilt. However, as an person dealing with my own life-threatening disorder, I try to dismiss the guilt as soon as it comes along. Remembering the statistics pertaining to caregiver…5 -
Guilt, Grief, and Memory Care
My mother and I always had a difficult relationship, but I know she loved me very much. She is in the moderate stages of Alzheimer’s and this disease has actually changed her into the sweetest person…6 -
Break in the Fog
I wanted to share my recent experience. I visited my mother yesterday, and I wasn't expecting much because she has been showing late stage six behaviors for several weeks now. The last lucid mom…7 -
Tips for husbands
I mentioned these in a reply a few days ago but thought they might be worth repeating in a post. For those husbands caring for DWs here's a few things I've picked up along the way: bra stra…8 -
Re: Feeling useless.
My DH has VD from strokes, memory is still pretty good but very flat affect, is sedentary and doesn't initiate anything. He wants for me to tell him what we are doing today, where we are going, …7 -
Re: Trying to self stage DH
I too was once in your situation where I wanted to see what stage my DW was in. Once I thought I pinpointed the stage, she would do something that questioned my interpretation of what stage she was i…13 -
Re: Tips for husbands
another thing to remember if you need to help your wife toileting is to always wipe from front to back to lessen the chance of a UTI.10 -
Re: pre loss grief
It's now two months since DW died. 5 years since I lost her in any meaningful way . I will say my children and siblings have been totally supportive. And I have a good therapist. I have been amu…7
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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