. . . and it's getting me down a bit.
My father died in 2016 after declining for two-and-a-half years, I noticed when he stopped doing cryptic crosswords, Sudoku and forgetting appointments. During the last year of life he certainly had dementia, which I was told was almost certainly vascular dementia. He was still pleasant and benign but just very sleepy, and when mobile apt to wander off.
I have an elder brother who visited us three times last year, for two hours each time. After December 2008 he started ignoring Christmas and birthdays pretty much. He invited us for Boxing Day afternoon on 2012 and our widowed mother and me in 2016 but that was all. This hurt our parents a lot, and me too.
Despite knowing little about illness of any kind, he thinks himself entitled to tell me what to do. He's quite talented really, but when not on a subject he knows about, he can't recognize he's not an expert.
I have no real help and am feeling depressed and isolated.
My father died in 2016 after declining for two-and-a-half years, I noticed when he stopped doing cryptic crosswords, Sudoku and forgetting appointments. During the last year of life he certainly had dementia, which I was told was almost certainly vascular dementia. He was still pleasant and benign but just very sleepy, and when mobile apt to wander off.
I have an elder brother who visited us three times last year, for two hours each time. After December 2008 he started ignoring Christmas and birthdays pretty much. He invited us for Boxing Day afternoon on 2012 and our widowed mother and me in 2016 but that was all. This hurt our parents a lot, and me too.
Despite knowing little about illness of any kind, he thinks himself entitled to tell me what to do. He's quite talented really, but when not on a subject he knows about, he can't recognize he's not an expert.
I have no real help and am feeling depressed and isolated.
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