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Re: Hospice and another fall
I just wanted to add a comment about hospice. You are feeling that they are intrusive and I can appreciate that as i have a cleaner come in twice a month now to help. Each hospice situation is differ…6 -
Re: Trying to help primary caregiver
Look aaround your Grandmother's home. What needs to be taken care of…dripping faucet, laundry, cleaning, lawn mowed, overgrown shrubs trimmed. Can you provide a good meal for your grandmother fo…5 -
Memory care guilt
My mom was driving and living alone 3 years ago and now can barely walk with a walker, has total incontinence, can't dress herself, and is furious I put her on memory care, where im sure frighte…5 -
Re: Just when you think your loved one is no longer able to understand....
My husband knew I was someone he loved and someone who loved him until the end. He wasn’t communicating at all for weeks. One day I patted his arm and told him I loved him and he turned and looked me…5 -
Re: Just when you think your loved one is no longer able to understand....
When your love is strong and you are there for your loved one in the good times and bad even as they start to fail, I believe the heart will break through now and then and just command the brain to w…6 -
Re: Yin and Yang
"Our life has changed and although I am trying not to, I find i am waiting for a future I don’t want." WOW! What a true statement. I think you said it for all of us. Anticipatory Grief! I a…5 -
Guilt lingers where love was poured without measure...
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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 …7 -
Re: Hospice and another fall
Thank you all so much for your comments. It has felt like a circus. They swooped in and took charge and I was overwhelmed with nurses and a social worker, forms to sign and reading materials to look …9 -
Re: Caregiving Rookie
One of the skills you will learn is to deceive your husband when necessary. I talked abut the DPOA issues ahead of time and presented them as each of us getting a DPOA for the other. Then when the ti…6
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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