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JDancer
JDancer Member Posts: 496
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My DH is struggling with words. I've started a list to help track his decline.

When he watches TV, he pauses the program and then fast forwards through the commercials. Yesterday he called this, "cutting the in betweens."

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  • sandwichone123
    sandwichone123 Member Posts: 910
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    My spouse used to want to go to "that place...where we had the yummy stuff." There's no telling whether it was a dinner place, ice cream place, breakfast place--they all have yummy stuff. Language is his most noticeable loss, and meaning has been gone for a long time. I wish I'd kept a list of some of his sayings when he couldn't remember the words, but I'm afraid we're beyond that now, for the most part.

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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