My husband has been fixated on having to make a journey for the past four days.
He doesn't know where, he just has this overwhelming belief that someone is waiting somewhere to give him some money. He keeps going on about finding a secret path to a bridge, down a dip and near a brook. He is getting increasingly frustrated with himself (and me) for not knowing where the place is and who will be there - or even why they would have money to give him.
He has been on several walks to find this place. Each time he has returned within an hour but I am becoming increasingly concerned that he will venture into unknown territory and get lost, and that I'll have no idea where to find him.
A couple of years back we talked about the use of GPS tracking and he was in favour of such a thing being used for him if he started to wander.
I believe we are now at that stage, or very close to it, so today I signed up for the service.
I don't know how long the equipment will take to arrive but the sooner the better. It will free him up to go out as and when he wants, and if he is gone a long time, it will enable us to know roughly where he is so we can go and meet him if necessary.
I do hope this fixation will go soon though. It's ironic that the things we want our loved ones to remember seldom are - but they cling on for dear life to the stuff we'd like them to forget.
I've tried all sorts of distractions but he picks back up right from where he left off every time!
He doesn't know where, he just has this overwhelming belief that someone is waiting somewhere to give him some money. He keeps going on about finding a secret path to a bridge, down a dip and near a brook. He is getting increasingly frustrated with himself (and me) for not knowing where the place is and who will be there - or even why they would have money to give him.
He has been on several walks to find this place. Each time he has returned within an hour but I am becoming increasingly concerned that he will venture into unknown territory and get lost, and that I'll have no idea where to find him.
A couple of years back we talked about the use of GPS tracking and he was in favour of such a thing being used for him if he started to wander.
I believe we are now at that stage, or very close to it, so today I signed up for the service.
I don't know how long the equipment will take to arrive but the sooner the better. It will free him up to go out as and when he wants, and if he is gone a long time, it will enable us to know roughly where he is so we can go and meet him if necessary.
I do hope this fixation will go soon though. It's ironic that the things we want our loved ones to remember seldom are - but they cling on for dear life to the stuff we'd like them to forget.
I've tried all sorts of distractions but he picks back up right from where he left off every time!