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Re: Refusing UTI treatment
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/74721/refusing-uti-treatment I think you should ask her doctor what will happen if you withhold treatment. I think developing urosepsis is very painful, but I'…2 -
Re: Refusing UTI treatment
I think it’s a comfort thing. UTI’s are uncomfortable- the burning. My mother developed urosepsis because doctors refused to believe she had a UTI. Trust me, that decline is not something you want to…2 -
Re: What Is Looking After Yourself
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/259541#Comment_259541 So sorry for your situation and it reads much like mine did before my wife passed. I used the time before my wife was awake in the mo…2 -
Re: What do you do with your big feelings?
My mom has always been indecisive and lacked self confidence. Now she is determined even demanding and sometimes cocky. I think she has lost so much independence that this is her was of holding on or…5 -
Re: Moved into Stage 4
I was in denial and kept trying things to make it better. I realize now for my husband there is no more learning or even remembering how to do things. I do 98 percent of everything now. It’s the exac…7 -
Re: What do you do with your big feelings?
I'm sorry to hear about your struggles. I suspect we each have to find our own way to accept what is happening and learn how to best cope. But for me, now in year 9, when things wear me down I j…4 -
Re: Cold Intolerance
I read somewhere this is part of the disease. Same thing I have with my husband. So ditto to every suggestion. I gave him a fuzzy twin blanket for him at night and I sleep in something very light eve…4 -
Re: Cold Intolerance
LOL I too was scrolling and saw Cold Intolerance and thought that’s me today, but reading I had given the heading the wrong meaning. I had to chuckle. I feel so bad because today I am particularly in…5 -
Re: Moved into Stage 4
@Maru As I recall your DH came to dementia with considerable cognitive reserve. I feel like that can impact acceptance for spousal caregivers as the deficits might not seem so obvious at first. HB I …5 -
Re: Don't know where we are in this
Even though my DH was diagnosed with multiple dementias two years ago, I contact his doctor when there are major or sudden changes in his health or behavior. I do this because my DH can no longer tel…2
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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