Only child, Mum has dementia, looking for someone to talk to

[Long-Suffering]

We are a pretty big club, Amy Lots of only children of nasty mums. Sad to say.

LS

 

[mandymac]

only living child of Alzheimer's suffer

Hi
I am an only child of 47 (gulp ! )

Mum and Dad still with me although 100% Mum has early to middle stages dementia BUT refuses to go to doctors... Dad is coping but very proud and I am having a lot of problems getting him to accept any help.... you probably can fill in the blanks.

Would really like to connect with people that are at the same stage as me and my family, either with or without diagnosis,
Suppose looking for a kind of penpal through this great forum.

My mum is now in a care home after 31/2 years I couldn't,t cope with mum anymore felt a total failure putting her in the home but in the end had no choice as she was becoming a danger to herself and I couldn't, be with her 24/7 I,m also a carer to my daughter who has a severe learning delay. Mum is cared for very well but I,m finding it increasingly hard to watch her decline can,t remember the last time I had a meaningful conversation with her and it destroys you. I lost my only brother in 2010 and my dad who also had alzheimers in2011 and i,m scared of how bad mum decline will getl