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Re: MC to Nursing Home
Many MC facilities know how to care for PWDs and even work with hospice. Wandering in other rooms is common. The one thing they can’t tolerate is aggressive behavior toward staff but many times that …8 -
Re: I Want To Live With Someone Else
I would love to try that, but he often thinks I am his Ex-wife……sometimes I think .. if only 🤭6 -
Re: I Want To Live With Someone Else
I think that will be my saying now. Im nurse rachet ot a caregiver 😀5 -
Re: How much is too much?
I agree with @wose about not saying it’s the dementia and then acknowledge and dismiss it. Weather change, less daylight, age, bad sleep the night before, maybe a touch of a cold could all be used as…6 -
Re: I Want To Live With Someone Else
, I’m so so with you. There is so little joy anymore. My DH hates me and tells me that every day. It’s so hard to tolerate. It’s been so long since I’ve heard a kind word or experienced joy. I was th…11 -
Just a rambling vent...
Mom started a fire in a microwave this morning. That was after Dad missed her walking out the door last night and she showed up in the garage where my husband and I were talking….scared the crap out …5 -
Re: Suicidal
Just an update. They took her off her antidepressant 3 weeks ago and didn't tell us! Of course she is depressed and suicidal. I can't believe they did this to her. Not happy with this.5 -
Re: You Might Be A Caregiver If...
I was cleaning the bathroom this weekend and DH of 37 years who has cleaned the bathroom a few times.. feels he needs to “help”. I finish scrubbing the toilet and he asks if I have gotten up under th…6 -
Re: You Might Be A Caregiver If...
You might be a caregiver if you tell your PWD "Sure, go ahead" as they belligerently try to light a pretzel stick with a pair of tweezers to smoke (life long smoker whose cigs had been take…5 -
Re: I Want To Live With Someone Else
We are a second family for DH. Whenever he asks where his wife is I'm tempted to call up his ex and say that he is asking for her. He can go to her with my blessing 😂11
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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