My husband was diagnosed with vascular dementia 2 years ago and he is now at the stage where I have to do most things for him - he cannot even make a cup of coffee properly or cook a meal, the problem is that the dementia has changed him so much and I feel that I am now living and caring for a different man to the one I married and I hate to admit that I don,t like the man that the dementia has turned him into.
I feel so lonely as I cannot even have a proper conversation with him and to be honest I sometimes feel that I am just the cleaner,cook,driver etc and to have to look after someone with dementia 24/7 is a very thankless task !
I am finding that I run out of patience with him and he doesn't appreciate all that I have to do for him, the future to me is looking very bleak - does anyone else ever feel this way ?
I feel so lonely as I cannot even have a proper conversation with him and to be honest I sometimes feel that I am just the cleaner,cook,driver etc and to have to look after someone with dementia 24/7 is a very thankless task !
I am finding that I run out of patience with him and he doesn't appreciate all that I have to do for him, the future to me is looking very bleak - does anyone else ever feel this way ?