How long has it been

Thanks for telling us more about you and your DW. I agree this site has helped me more than anything else while taking care of my DH, now in our eleventh year. My DH is now 78 and I am 69. We have been married 42 years. My DH is still home with me as his caregiver and have had hospice care for over 18 months now. He is just on a slow steady decline which at this point could go on for years. It hit me the other evening he is wasting away right before me. He has consistently lost a pound or two every month for a few years and his wedding ring, which was so tight on his finger and was thought would have to be cut off some day, is now loose on his finger and afraid in the near future will slide off his finger. I too don’t know what my life will be like after, and I don’t let myself think too much about our life before this horrible disease, as that hurts too much. (I’m sure that will hit me after his journey ends) I just focus on each day of doing the best I can to care for him now.

Like you, I have shared more with people on this group than anywhere else. I’m 69, my husband is nearing 82 with other health issues. I, too, wonder about life after. It scares me to be honest, but at the same time I have given up so much that I hope to get some of it back. But for now I try to keep it at one day at a time.