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  • Re: $300 speaker

    I’m sorry about your speaker! Your post is a great heads up for me to be aware of what could happen. I’m learning so much but have a long road ahead.
  • Re: Our Theme Song?

    thank you for sharing. 💜
  • Re: Our Theme Song?

    Cindybum that is just beautiful and made me melt with tears yet again thank you it will be on the top of my playlist right next to Jelly Roll “I Am Not Ok”. Incidentally just to lighten my sad heart …
  • Re: Long Winding, Descending Road

    https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/257724#Comment_257724 That is a beautiful idea. Sort of a tour of your mom's life. Maybe after the "expected" funeral and some time to recov…
  • Re: Dogs and Alzheimer’s

    https://alzconnected.org/discussion/74527/dogs-and-alzheimer-s my LO is stage 4 of Alzheimer’s, we have two dogs, just lost one and got a puppy. He absolutely would be lost without them. For us our d…
  • Re: $300 speaker

    So sorry! This is the best place to vent.
  • Palliative care

    Hi all it’s been awhile since I had trouble with my password 🤦‍♀️ my daughter keeps wanting me to get my LO on Palliative Care. He is diagnosed Alzheimer’s stage 4-5. Our biggest problem now is gett…
  • Re: Quick question

    Kind of same as Scooterr. She would rather be with me than anyone else but if the stars are aligned we can get her to be ok with someone she knows for a bit. Sometimes she’ll just sleep. Might be her…
  • Re: Quick question

    My DW shadowing comes and goes. On her bad days she could care less about being around me. On her good days she is shadowing me. Her bad days are rough all around, so I'm happy to have the shado…
  • Re: Quick question

    I'm another that it has not diminished. We are on our 2nd sitter and hoping she will have some success bonding with him. At the dentist this week and they had to bring him back into the room to …

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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