Talking gibberish

DW is also in stage 6 with similar communication issues. She asks if we have two dogs. She asks what their names are. She asks who our grandchildren's parents are. She asks the same question hundreds of times, often just seconds apart. Sometimes I just don't answer and she forgets what she was asking. I don't even worry anymore about giving accurate answers, what does it matter? Short term memory and cognitive skills are gone. Out of sight, out of mind. If she doesn't see both dogs, she thinks we only have one. I am going to get her on a wait list for memory care. Ten years is enough. I am out of patience.

Goodness gracious how strange we are all in the same boat. My DH constantly asks where is the other dog? We only have one so I say the other one was his life-size comforter toy puppy with a beating heart he had when he was a new puppy. He also suffers with Aphasia so word salad. I often have no idea what he is trying to say but I feel so much for him we used to talk, discuss, exchange thoughts and ideas I miss that so much. I’m becoming an expert on facial expression's, nodding in the appropriate spots and saying things like Humm you could be right, really? and anything else I can think of and I often don’t know what we are talking about. I try to smile, laugh and finish with a kiss. It helps, it’s that or cry. Don’t be too hard on yourself or your partner remember they are broken.