Hello, I thought a lot about what I was going to write, I don't have a question, nor am I asking for advice, I just needed to talk about this. I read other people's stories about alzheimer in different forums, and I wanted to share mine as well, just to let people know that they're not the only one who are going through this, and that they are, most definitly, understood
... All four of my grandparents had alzheimer, only 2 of them were really diagnosed with it, but we just know that the other two have it as well, I'd say that we got so much used to the disease that it's symptomes became cristal clear to us
... anyway, my paternal grandparents died some years ago, and now, my maternal ones both have the disease, only that my grandfather is in a late stage of it, He became compeletly dependent on my aunt, in everything. I help my aunt taking care of them, but my grandmother is making it hard on me, my aunt and my other aunts and uncles and on my mom, she still consideres herself the main caregiver to my grandfather and she doesn't even realize that she herself needs care, she yells at him for doing bad things he didn't mean to do, she nags at him so much that he would avoid asing her anything so she won't yell at him.anyway this caused me a depression and I started believing that it was inevitable that I'll have alzheimer too if I'm meant to live that long. And it's even harder on my aunt because she's the one who has to do 95% or even more of the caring process, and she became really depressed and doesn't sleep much. I'm sorry for this long long text, It's been a long while since I talked about this, and I really needed to spell it out.
Ps : to all those who are going though this too, if it's your parents you're taking care of, just remember that they took care of you when you were kids, and even if it's not parents you have to look after, it's not up to them what they do, It's the disease that is making them do this ... and, May God reward you for the care you provide
