Hello all,
Have spent the last couple of hours going through the threads & reading reply's, every one hits a nerve or tear duct. So many questions & so much pain in peoples lives, I feel for each & every one of you. People ask how long is a piece of string?, The only answer can be, no string is the same length, some are longer than others.
Sorry I'm Jon & new to this site,
Joan, my wife, was diagnosed with dementia 2001 and was prescribed Aricept. Over the early months the changes were quite slow, but as time passed by, Joan new she could not manage things that used to be easy for her. Slowly her life was being eroded by this insidious disease.
The start of 2007 Joan was still on Aricept & I'm sure that it was this drug that gave Joan her quality of life up to this point, but the dementia started to progress at a faster rate
over the next few months & there comes a point when drugs are no longer viable, so in July Aricept medication was stopped.
Joans decline continued to the point were eating & drinking became a problem & I was no longer able to move her around the house. Arrangements were made and Joan went in to a home for nursing care. Joans fluid intake continued to decline, sad to say Joan passed away in October, she was 62 & we had been together 40 yrs.
So yes, I feel the pain that people here are feeling, I also have other feelings loneliness, guilt, sorrow, emptiness & anger.
So my question that can never be answered, What did My Joan do to deserve this
Have spent the last couple of hours going through the threads & reading reply's, every one hits a nerve or tear duct. So many questions & so much pain in peoples lives, I feel for each & every one of you. People ask how long is a piece of string?, The only answer can be, no string is the same length, some are longer than others.
Sorry I'm Jon & new to this site,
Joan, my wife, was diagnosed with dementia 2001 and was prescribed Aricept. Over the early months the changes were quite slow, but as time passed by, Joan new she could not manage things that used to be easy for her. Slowly her life was being eroded by this insidious disease.
The start of 2007 Joan was still on Aricept & I'm sure that it was this drug that gave Joan her quality of life up to this point, but the dementia started to progress at a faster rate
over the next few months & there comes a point when drugs are no longer viable, so in July Aricept medication was stopped.
Joans decline continued to the point were eating & drinking became a problem & I was no longer able to move her around the house. Arrangements were made and Joan went in to a home for nursing care. Joans fluid intake continued to decline, sad to say Joan passed away in October, she was 62 & we had been together 40 yrs.
So yes, I feel the pain that people here are feeling, I also have other feelings loneliness, guilt, sorrow, emptiness & anger.
So my question that can never be answered, What did My Joan do to deserve this