Praying for this to end
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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