I never thought I would....

Judi57

have to use a suppository on my DH.

We do what we have to do. I think I've done it all now.  My caregiving has reached a different level.

How would you complete the sentence?

Paris20

…cut down on my visits to DH at his skilled nursing facility because I can’t bear seeing him this way. He doesn’t remember whether I’ve visited anyway.

Ed1937

Just when you think you've done it all, something new pops up.

Just Bill

I'm not going to blow smoke up your a**, but.....

Kevcoy

have to explain nearly everyday to my DH that we are married and that the house we are in is ours.

60 falcon

At times when when the chips were down, when I was burnt out on caregiving and stressed more than ever before...

I never thought I would... Say things to my wife that I regret so badly that I feel they will haunt me forever.

It's a heavy burden for me to carry forward.  

PookieBlue

Ditto

toolbeltexpert

I never thought I would place my wife. But here I am and there she is safe, not so aggravated by all the things around her at home that were triggers for her behaviors. I never thought I would think of selling our home. But it's on the market. I never thought I would be smelling my wife's back side.  This morning I am thankful she had a shower and they changed her clothes. I am thankful she wasn't crying this morning and she still knows me. I am thankful for the caring cna's who put up with all the abuse verbal and physical.

Falcon I can say ditto as well. I have learned to say I am sorry more times than I care to say and then forgive myself 

Stewart

JoseyWales

I never thought I'd look at a puddle of pee on the floor and wonder if it was DH or the dog.

And I never thought I'd take my husband for a walk outside our rural home hoping that he'd pee in the yard instead of on the floor in the house.

Last Dance

I never thought I would end my life without her. I always thought I would be the first one to go, but here I am going on 6 years, and I still talk to her and miss her every day. Once this disease starts it really never ends, the ordeal of carry for her and the times I think of the things I should have done better, and putting her in MC  will haunt me for the rest of my life.

ghphotog

I never thought I'd have to explain to me DW that have been married for 25 years, this is our house and home and I don't have a girlfriend.

Ed1937

ghphotog wrote:

I never thought I'd have to explain to me DW that have been married for 25 years, this is our house and home and I don't have a girlfriend.

Yeah, many of us have been there, done that. Very common.

Nowhere

Sleep in my husband’s memory care facility holding the hand of his actively dying memory care “wife”.