Hi.. Good suggestion will try.. Anything to get his mind off 'dad's army'.. 'stupid boy' xx
That made me smile ... x
Hi.. Good suggestion will try.. Anything to get his mind off 'dad's army'.. 'stupid boy' xx
Mum when she has even the mildest of UTI’s takes against the news readers & actually has delusions visual & auditory triggered by this that involve her loved ones. Horrible delusions that scare her & me!
I understand now why the care home carefully monitors the programs being watched. Good old move to the country, or whatever it’s called!!
Walking on eggshells all the time!! Telling me off for smiling, then telling me I’m smirking and then - why don’t you smile.
Don’t ever expect to win, you can’t, we just wake every day plod on and cope - because we have to xx[/QUOTE
Hi Lirene, I’m having that today,
Yesterday he was quite cheerful, even had a few laughs together!
What a change today, seems to be in a deep depression, everything I say is or do to cheer him up is wrong and he gets annoyed, and mutters to himself that I’m stupid, I’m ignoring that and trying to stay upbeat, we know it’s understandable and will pass, but it’s still hard to cope with!
Keep smiling and plodding on. xx
It really is and I have trouble realising that I have to do it. He won’t even realise that I have packed his things and I guess we do this to protect them from what they can’t understand. There! What a tortuous sentence which sums up the mind wrecking effects of looking after someone who has lost their mind. If I try to be normal it’s hopeless but then we live in false hope. I suppose that’s what his sister is doing, living in hope.It`s awful to feel sneaky isn`t it @Grahamstown.
We know the `holiday` is a necessity and temporary but our people with dementia are in the wilderness.
It really is and I have trouble realising that I have to do it. He won’t even realise that I have packed his things and I guess we do this to protect them from what they can’t understand. There! What a tortuous sentence which sums up the mind wrecking effects of looking after someone who has lost their mind. If I try to be normal it’s hopeless but then we live in false hope. I suppose that’s what his sister is doing, living in hope.
I have to pack and go away myself and that might help
I feel much worse about leaving him this time than last