Hi,
My grandma has vascular dementia and it's a constant source of stress. She lives with us. She has always been a difficult person- for example she told my parents she wouldn't speak to them if they had another child after my mum had a late term miscarriage, but after two strokes and three heart attacks she is worse. She sets about each day doing things that she 'knows she shouldn't do' in order to get angina- including lifting very heavy baskets of washing (which I have offered to carry), using heavy garden shears etc and I'm okay with that, she needs to have her independence even if it means she gets angina every single day and I just give her a glass of red wine and her GTN spray. But she also gets incredibly angry and tells everyone to go to hell, she refuses to wash her hands when they're disgustingly dirty and makes things very difficult.
Nobody understands in my age-group and I'm so fed up.
My grandma has vascular dementia and it's a constant source of stress. She lives with us. She has always been a difficult person- for example she told my parents she wouldn't speak to them if they had another child after my mum had a late term miscarriage, but after two strokes and three heart attacks she is worse. She sets about each day doing things that she 'knows she shouldn't do' in order to get angina- including lifting very heavy baskets of washing (which I have offered to carry), using heavy garden shears etc and I'm okay with that, she needs to have her independence even if it means she gets angina every single day and I just give her a glass of red wine and her GTN spray. But she also gets incredibly angry and tells everyone to go to hell, she refuses to wash her hands when they're disgustingly dirty and makes things very difficult.
Nobody understands in my age-group and I'm so fed up.