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Changes in vision - info to help communicate
When someone with dementia seems confused, startled, or disconnected during a conversation, it may be because they literally cannot see you. As dementia progresses, peripheral vision narrows and the …8 -
My DH is wanting to spend every minute with me
My DH is recovering well from knee surgery. I have been caring for him and not leaving the house for 4 weeks. He gets around with a walker and I can take the dog out for a walk now. He gets mad if I …5 -
Re: What the …?
Hi JC5. As @SDianeL said, this is a heartbreaking disease! Every day is the same yet different! One moment is okay and the next is just crazy! DH had me up most of the night with hallucinations and a…6 -
Re: Bible Verse to Lift You Up 11/15/2025
Thank you all for your prayers. Believers and those unsure of what they believe still need the comfort and support the words themselves give even if they're unsure where the words come from. Tak…7 -
Re: ‘Me Time’ Confusion
We have a clearner come in every other week. I need the help but I also find it intrusive. So, yes, on the mixed feelings. I am pretty sure that will also be the case when I have to have a companion …5 -
Re: When the marriage was not good.
This is such a heart softening, soul cleansing, therapeutic post… back to life….. I’m so glad i stumbled on it. Sometimes it helps to keep reminding ourselves we are human and make life altering mist…11 -
Re: endgame
The answer is to tell her whatever comforts her. ‘ I’m sure you will feel better soon. ‘. If she asks what’s wrong, say that she is just having normal memory/aging issues…’nothing to worry about’. Tr…7 -
Re: endgame
I tell DH that he is “getting stronger everyday” and when we measure his arm for weight loss because he can’t stand on a scale to weigh him, I tell him that he has such big muscles that we are trying…8 -
Re: The Cavalry Is Not Coming
Someone sent this link and so am just reading this. My wife was diagnosed in 2019 and I am just now making this type of transformation in my thinking. I have been through the nervous breakdown phase,…5 -
Re: When the marriage was not good.
Mitsu-2, I am in pretty much an identical situation…except we married when I was 18 yrs old! Now as an old woman of 76, I ask the same question…what in the world was I thinking? I also wonder if ther…10
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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