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Re: Feeling lonely and loosing hope.
I am so sorry you are having to face this awful disease with your DW. It’s Christmas and like many on this forum I am feeling very flat and lost. I am lonely because I don’t have my DH anymore to sha…12 -
Re: Feeling lonely and loosing hope.
I am truly sorry for what you are going through. I think I can confidently say that the majority of us have been in your place where we remained hopeful the disease would not progress, and then it do…7 -
Re: Taking a Patient out of Memory Care for Christmas?
My mother has been in MC for 4 months. She is in early stage 6 with Alz. The "story" we told her when she moved was that she was going for rehab and physical therapy (she loves PT). She was…3 -
Re: Taking a Patient out of Memory Care for Christmas?
Ask if the MC is putting on a family dinner, party, or having musical entertainment. Attend that with your mom and jet that be one your new tradition. Then visit her or Christmas Eve or the evening o…6 -
Re: Taking a Patient out of Memory Care for Christmas?
Hi @mwk Welcome. So sorry you have to be here; glad you found this wonderful group. My advice is to stop and ask yourself if you are doing this for her, or because of the fond memories YOU have from …1 -
Re: The Caregiver’s Brain
harshedbuzz Thank you for the NPR link! It was a great article, and it sent me down a major bunny trail. On that trail, I came across this visual representation of the stages of being a caretaker. (&…3 -
Re: Our 1st day
As others here have said, I too am sorry you and your LO have to walk this road with all of us here. You might want to check out Natali Edmonds Careblazers videos and Teepa Snow as well. The hardest …1 -
Re: Barely Surviving Everday…
Welcome, and I’m sorry you had to find yourself here but glad you did. It is an exhaustion like no other. You mentioned you are sole caretaker. Do you have power of attorney? Now is the time to get t…5 -
Re: Barely Surviving Everday…
I shouldn't say I understand because no one can truly understand what anyone is going through… it somehow seems patronizing to say those words. When I lost my child, I remember people coming up …8 -
Re: Just need to talk to my friends (213)
A booster shot with the Moderna vaccine offered older people better protection against COVID-19 if they had previously taken Pfizer jabs, researchers at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (N…1
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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