Dear Izzy, Crumbs! Hope I haven't alarmed you. I do also know lots of teachers who DON'T have Altzheimers. My mother has short term memory loss and depression. My father's short term memory is reasonably good and he rarely gets depressed. He does, however, suffer from halucinations and is constantly losing things - then spends hours looking for them until he eventually forgets just what it is that he's actually lost. He's also obsessed with finances and international news events. I've never watched so many TV news broadcasts in my whole life... I also spend hours going through his bank statements with him, which can get tedious in the extreme. Dad also confuses names and genders, which my mother doesn't do. Actually between them, the dynamics of their different types of the disease helps them to 'muddle' along quite well on a daily basis. One recalls what the other cannot, but when they both have a bad day, things can get quite odd around here...! My father taught Maths and Science and often refers to things in maths terms. For example, he will say that he has eaten '15/16ths of his lunch and Mum has consumed a lesser fraction of hers'. I find this very amusing, so we do have some fun, as his sense of humour is very active.
Your husband sounds very fit and physically well too. My father is taking Aricept every morning and since he started on this course of medication, his memory has improved tremendously. Is your husband taking this? Mother can't take it unfortunately - it make her very sick.
Do you have a carer to give you a break?