Right folks back to sprees post
I was 'lucky' in as much as my Husband backed into someone else's car and drove off without leaving his details or phoning the police. Of course the police caught up with him a week later as someone else had seen what he had done. I spoke to the police and gave them the insurance details. Luckily no one was hurt and we never heard anything else. (This was before Pete was officially diagnosed). Pete was really shook up and didn't ever drive again. You see he had lost his confidence. Sad-but an easy way out.
Spree-how aware is your Husband? Can he be reasoned with? If so can the GP, or a Community Police Officer have a word with him? The news may be received better that way.Ask them to put something in writing so he has something to refer to.
As for the other posts on this thread; Tony, Norrms, Barry and others like Creative Sarah, Jean (Pookie) and Sue J and others, are all coping well with carrying on with their lives in a much better way than other sufferers can-that includes my own darling Husband.
In my own opinion malc has tried to be helpful by telling Spree his own experience. His experience is different from others but it was
his experience Malc, like many others on this Forum, and that includes carers and sufferers alike, is suffering from tremendous stress and grief. To see such a young wife be swallowed up by Alzheimers is destroying-so I can't agree that
'unless you had Alzheimer’s yourself you haven’t got any experience of living with condition at all'
I haven't got dementia but I see my Husband's suffering everyday. Like Truth24 I see my Husband in his CH and it breaks my heart. So I do have experience of living with the condition. It's different from a sufferer-but it's still experience.
Spree-I hope the driving problem is resolved. The other remarks made on this thread? Well I think we will all have to agree to disagree.
I hope everyone has had good days
Lyn T X