Hi,
My husband has just recently been diagnosed with early onset alzheimers. I feel that we have got over the shock of the diagnosis, but find it difficult some days to accept that this is acrually what is happening. It is hard when everyone around you thinks that it is not true and that they have got it wrong as most of the time my husband appears to them to be no different to how he was previously,(they only see him for the odd hour or so) so this actually makes me doubt it too on some days. Although other days I can see it and believe it is correct.
I lost my dad last year to this terrible disease and had many years of seeing him deteriorate and I am scared of seeing my husband go the same way, some times I think ignorance is bliss, but knowing what may lie ahead does give me some down days but I try to keep my/our spirits up as he gets agitated if I am not positive about things.
Has anyone else experienced the denial of family and friends upon receiving the diagnosis? and in the early stages feel the way we do that they are wrong?
My husband has just recently been diagnosed with early onset alzheimers. I feel that we have got over the shock of the diagnosis, but find it difficult some days to accept that this is acrually what is happening. It is hard when everyone around you thinks that it is not true and that they have got it wrong as most of the time my husband appears to them to be no different to how he was previously,(they only see him for the odd hour or so) so this actually makes me doubt it too on some days. Although other days I can see it and believe it is correct.
I lost my dad last year to this terrible disease and had many years of seeing him deteriorate and I am scared of seeing my husband go the same way, some times I think ignorance is bliss, but knowing what may lie ahead does give me some down days but I try to keep my/our spirits up as he gets agitated if I am not positive about things.
Has anyone else experienced the denial of family and friends upon receiving the diagnosis? and in the early stages feel the way we do that they are wrong?