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Re: Soo mad
I would always invite the "armchair" family and friends caregivers to come over and spend time with us so they could advise and show me how to be a "better" caregiver. It did not …9 -
Re: Long term meds and medical screening
Your spouse isn’t going to 1) know what he’s having a colonoscopy for 2) be able to deal with the prep the day here, 3) be able to deal with any treatment based upon the results of the colonoscopy. T…3 -
Re: Long term meds and medical screening
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/73026/long-term-meds-and-medical-screening I am handling this by not treating my wife's lymphoma. Neither her doctor nor I think subjecting her to chemotherapy for…4 -
Re: Long term meds and medical screening
My DW is stage 6 and I have refused all screening tests (colonoscopy, mammogram, bone density tests, etc). I had the doctor stop her aspirin and statin. At the next visit, I will ask for the blood pr…6 -
Re: Long term meds and medical screening
Thanks for the support thoughtful support everyone. I only wish that the Doctors had time to know their individual patients instead of blindly prescribing medication based on lab tests.2 -
Palliative Care
The geriatrician my DH sees has ordered palliative care and we've seen first a registered nurse and then a nurse practitioner. I wondered if anyone has experience with pallilative care and if it's he…2 -
Re: Soo mad
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/73023/soo-mad I have noticed that the most certain experts on child rearing are childless. What you are experiencing is the same.4 -
Re: Long term meds and medical screening
MILwAD, early stage 6 at the time, had a several day hospitalization for Giardia about 5 months before she died. When she got home she started either slapping away her meds or accepting them nicely i…2 -
Re: Is it necessary for Nurologist it ask same questions that upset patient everytime?
This is so timely, my husband had the Medicare physical it’s awful. First he had to fill out an online form with lots of invasive questions (which he got wrong) . In the office while the nurse was we…2 -
Long term meds and medical screening
My husband is seven years into this dementia journey. He has zero short term memory and confabulations constantly about places we’ve never been, ads he sees on TV etc. He can’t find anything in the k…4
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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