Hi everyone
I haven’t posted for a while, but we had the diagnosis today. My uncle has early Alzheimer’s. He is starting a course of meds next week.
Today has been a bit of a mixture of emotions. The assessments were difficult because he was told to stop driving with immediate effect after the first test and he just couldn’t get his head around it. The doctor was lovely today on his diagnostic call and she let him down lightly when she said that he had to just resign himself to not being able to drive anymore. We just held on to the fact that there will be medication to help him. Obviously it won’t cure it or stop it, but at least there’s something for now.
I feel the relief of knowing the prognosis, but at the same time, I feel a sense of grief that we’re going to eventually lose him to this illness. He was quite positive at the end of the phone call with the doctor, and I got a minute with him by myself so I gave him a big hug and told him how proud I was of him for seeing the assessment process through to this point and told him that I loved him very much.
Maybe the shock hasn’t hit us all yet, we knew in our heart of hearts, but I guess we’ve got to just let it sink in.
How did all you carers feel at this point?
I haven’t posted for a while, but we had the diagnosis today. My uncle has early Alzheimer’s. He is starting a course of meds next week.
Today has been a bit of a mixture of emotions. The assessments were difficult because he was told to stop driving with immediate effect after the first test and he just couldn’t get his head around it. The doctor was lovely today on his diagnostic call and she let him down lightly when she said that he had to just resign himself to not being able to drive anymore. We just held on to the fact that there will be medication to help him. Obviously it won’t cure it or stop it, but at least there’s something for now.
I feel the relief of knowing the prognosis, but at the same time, I feel a sense of grief that we’re going to eventually lose him to this illness. He was quite positive at the end of the phone call with the doctor, and I got a minute with him by myself so I gave him a big hug and told him how proud I was of him for seeing the assessment process through to this point and told him that I loved him very much.
Maybe the shock hasn’t hit us all yet, we knew in our heart of hearts, but I guess we’ve got to just let it sink in.
How did all you carers feel at this point?