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Supporting Those Who Have Lost Someone

Nearly a year since my mother died.
I am remembering her final days, making the decision for comfort care at the hospital, the conflicting emotions. I am remembering the vigil and how nurses were telling my sister and I that it was obvious our mother was a wonderful mother, because our continuous presence declared it. My sister and I would exchange looks and…
Mom said she is done eating
Yesterday mom only drank about 1/4 of her chocolate ensure. This morning I asked if she was hungry. She just flat out told me no and she mumbled that she is done eating. She is sleeping almost around the clock, completely out of it when awake. She will drink water and does mumble that she wants her meds, but even the water…
Wedding Anniversary
On Tuesday March 2, 2021 it would of have been our 19th year wedding anniversary. My Lydia was the prettiest bride in the world. I was a very lucky man. My DW Lydia has been gone a little over 4 months - I miss her every second, of every minute, of every day. I still work, and beginning to do some household things that I…
A article I found
I am feeling low today. I am trying to make sense of my life instead of doing the work they pay me to do. So I was Internet surfing and came across this well written article on a person who lost his wife to the insidious disease of Alzheimer's. As he tries to say -.. "an attempt to capture grief in to words."…
Hospice accuracy
This is kind of a cross post from the caregivers forum. My LO was put on hospice last week and their evaluating nurse estimated a couple weeks to a month or so to passing. I am curious of other peoples experience with estimated times left for life. I was really taken back they have this time estimate. I know anything can…
Caregiver Guilt
Hello, I am new to the community. However not new to the disease. I buried three aunts before the age of 30 with alzheimer's and now my mother this year . My mother had cerebral palsy and was mentally handicap . My father passed when i was 21 at age of 72 and my mother was 20 years younger. I assumed guardianship and power…
2 months on
Hello everyone, My name is Alexis. I recently lost my grandmother to Alzheimer's in November 2020. Her death felt like one more tragedy to an already frustrating year. It was so heartbreaking and so difficult - there was no one in this world that I loved more than her and it was even more difficult to lose her around the…

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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