Praying for this to end

toolbeltexpert

Wag91 your not alone, I prayed for mercy for an early end for my dw but thought for sure she was gonna outlive me! I had a plan abc that went out 5 yrs and beyond. Late last year my dw had some sudden progression, sleeping longer, weight loss, sudden bouts of not being able to move her body, double incontinence. Two weeks later she was gone. I didn’t have a plan for that!

Its a living hell for the pwd and the caregiver.

We all totally get it,but wish we didn’t have to.

Stewart

Jeff86

No question about it, when my DW entered stage 7 I was terrified for her (and for myself) that she might have to endure the awful sub-stages with their horrendous physical manifestations of this disease. I feel we were both fortunate that, after a few months in home hospice care, my DW passed in her sleep.

It is a compassionate thought to want a LO to escape the last final terrible ravages of this disease.

mrahope

I totally get wanting your LO to not have to endure the terrible ravages that will come with passing on from dementia. I struggle even now knowing that inside this angry, disturbed human is the person I once thought was the most fun in the world. If there was a way to end this suffering for him, I would surely try.

M1

My partner fell yesterday, just slipped coming out of her bathroom--I was standing right there but couldn't stop it. Fortunately she seemed not to be badly hurt, but she was so rude and ugly to the nurses who came immediately to try to help get her up. I was ashamed of her, it is so different from her real self. All the more reason it just makes me wish for an end. Despite all the saccharine sayings of "I'm still here...."----this is not her any more.