I haven't posted on here but read all the posts every day, this has been such an encouragement to me, knowing I am not alone dealing with my thoughts and the emotional roller coaster this dreadful disease causes. My mom has mixed dementia - vascular/Alzheimer's. She also has cancer. She is in a CH for dementia. She has been in there since February this year. Dad died in January, poor mom cannot remember and constantly asks where he is and why has he left her alone in that place. She just wants to go home. It breaks my heart to see her so sad. Like so many others on TP I have become very good at lying to her, saying dad is in the pub, she lets me leave her when I tell her I'm going to find him and send him back to her!
I visit her every other day, she is very loving, telling me how much she loves me, hoe she has loved me from the very first moment she saw me (bless). I am so lucky that she is like this when I know so many of you have loved ones who don't recognise them, or are aggressive. But it still breaks my heart when I leave, that look she's gives me -"why are you leaving me here, please stay a bit longer" ...
That's me introducing myself, thank you for reading.
I visit her every other day, she is very loving, telling me how much she loves me, hoe she has loved me from the very first moment she saw me (bless). I am so lucky that she is like this when I know so many of you have loved ones who don't recognise them, or are aggressive. But it still breaks my heart when I leave, that look she's gives me -"why are you leaving me here, please stay a bit longer" ...
That's me introducing myself, thank you for reading.