Have as good a time as you can. Make the most of it and good luck.xxYay! For next Monday!! Make it something good...walk and beer? Meet old friends? Beer and old movies? Enjoy.
Have as good a time as you can. Make the most of it and good luck.xxYay! For next Monday!! Make it something good...walk and beer? Meet old friends? Beer and old movies? Enjoy.
Glad you enjoyed your time off. There is only one thing that is good about dementia. Just when you think you have had enough. Just when you can't do this anymore. Something changes. Often just the change makes it easier. My love to you.xxxHi. Thank you, Monday was excellent. It's a long time since I managed to play catch up on that scale. Also making plans for the twenty-seventh when my wife is going out to lunch with friends once again. At last I feel I'm getting somewhere. Also don't forget townswomen's guild on the seventeenth, it gets better doesn't it. Otherwise it's very much business as usual. There are some plusses, her weight loss seems to have levelled out and she will shortly be going on to using rivastigmine patches instead of the tablets. It won't be the end of medication wars though, but hopefully it should be a bit easier. Told you I was an optimist. That's it for now. ☺Al.
Hi. Thank you, Monday was excellent. It's a long time since I managed to play catch up on that scale. Also making plans for the twenty-seventh when my wife is going out to lunch with friends once again. At last I feel I'm getting somewhere. Also don't forget townswomen's guild on the seventeenth, it gets better doesn't it. Otherwise it's very much business as usual. There are some plusses, her weight loss seems to have levelled out and she will shortly be going on to using rivastigmine patches instead of the tablets. It won't be the end of medication wars though, but hopefully it should be a bit easier. Told you I was an optimist. That's it for now. ☺Al.
HelloAL60. First, pleased to hear you are ok. I cried reading your post. I absolutely understand why this made you feel the way it did. My husband loves children's books. He tries to read them and points to the pictures and it seems to make him happy. I have quite a few childrens books the sort that have stories that we would read to 2 or 3 year old children. They are the grandchildrens who have long since outgrown them. It makes me feel so emotional to see him take such an interest in the pictures. We have to remember that their brain is that of a small childs. Saddest thing to witness but also if it makes them happy it has to be good. Lots of love to you both.xxHi. I've been doing so well just lately, I'm not saying that things have been perfect, far from it but I must admit I've been quite proud of the way I've been coping. This fact has been reflected in my lack of posts of late. Then why tonight? Earlier today we went to the local supermarket, one of the bigger ones. While there she spent some time looking for colouring books. There's nothing unusual in this as she's looked at them before, even bought one from time to time. But that's as far as it's gone, bought them and left them, usually under the table. But today she found a child's colouring book complete with stickers. Well, this afternoon I watched her colour some of the pages . I tried not to worry but I was strangely overcome with a kind of sadness which is hard to describe. It soon passed as there were other things going on at the time. But much later on this evening as I was tidying up before bedtime I picked up the book she'd been filling in and saw how she had managed to colour a couple of the pages and also managed to place the stickers in neat rows. This was the point where I found myself in something of a blubbering mess. I don't really know why it should be that and then, it soon passed. And here I am ,passing it on to you. Thank you talking point, just for being there. As it's so late I'll sign off now but I'm sure I'll be back soon.Al. Goodnight.
Hi. I've been doing so well just lately, I'm not saying that things have been perfect, far from it but I must admit I've been quite proud of the way I've been coping. This fact has been reflected in my lack of posts of late. Then why tonight? Earlier today we went to the local supermarket, one of the bigger ones. While there she spent some time looking for colouring books. There's nothing unusual in this as she's looked at them before, even bought one from time to time. But that's as far as it's gone, bought them and left them, usually under the table. But today she found a child's colouring book complete with stickers. Well, this afternoon I watched her colour some of the pages . I tried not to worry but I was strangely overcome with a kind of sadness which is hard to describe. It soon passed as there were other things going on at the time. But much later on this evening as I was tidying up before bedtime I picked up the book she'd been filling in and saw how she had managed to colour a couple of the pages and also managed to place the stickers in neat rows. This was the point where I found myself in something of a blubbering mess. I don't really know why it should be that and then, it soon passed. And here I am ,passing it on to you. Thank you talking point, just for being there. As it's so late I'll sign off now but I'm sure I'll be back soon.Al. Goodnight.
Hi. Toys, children's books and shiny things. Trying to get past the Christmas displays in supermarkets is getting harder as time goes on. We only went for bread today but also ended up with several more Christmas decorations. If this carries on at least I won't have to go into the loft this year. ☺. It's only October and we're the first in our road to have a candle bridge in the front window, probably the first in town. It's an all on battle to dissuade her from putting up the Christmas tree. I'm in the process of getting the living room sorted,, new carpet, new gas fire and new furniture. Consequently the room has been totally emptied in readiness for all this so no tree yet but by November 15, it'll be up and decorated with all manner of shiny things, then we'll all be happy. For a while anyway. When we're in the shops, she will spend quite a while looking at children's toys, games and books. I'm holding her back from buying things, for now at any rate, but for how long. I try to remind her that our children are all now grown up and we have no grandchildren to buy for but for now she just loves to browse. So, tomorrow hopefully we'll have a day indoors, this will be unusual as normally by the time I've woken up, showered then dressed she's waiting by the front door, coat on, bag in hand ready to go out. Where To? No idea, anywhere for peace and quiet or a shop that sells shiny Christmas decorations. ☺Al.
I most certainly will☺Hi:
Twinkle, twinkle little star. Let her decorate with all the shiny and sparkly stuff she wants too so she can sparkle as the star that she surely is.
Hi. That's so true, it's a heck of a slap too, and it hurts so much.Al.Yes, it is nice to ‘see’ you again, Al. But this is sad, isn’t it? My OH was a good artist..and I have been struggling to find him stuff to do. I have given him my adult colouring book...and he is happy spending hours on one picture....but he is doing the whole thing in one colour. Yesterday, I was tidying up his computer...at his request...getting rid of old emails. I was so sad, seeing how articulate he was just a short while ago. Sometimes stuff like this just slaps you in the face, doesn’t it?
It's taken some time but I really do think I'm getting into some kind of routine. Either that or I'm just getting used to things now.
she can't identify the edge pieces. So we do it her way
Just three years to get this bad and yet I feel I must be prepared for much worse.
InHi again. Certainly wasn't intending to post again so soon. But as it's the wrong side of midnight and once again find sleep isn't coming easy tonight, this seemed a good idea. It's looking to me as though we really are all in this together. So many similarities everywhere on this site. It could be seen as depressing, or, it could be seen as a wealth of useful information. I have a question, and I know someone, somewhere out there will have a number of ideas and suggestions for me. Mealtimes are becoming a nightmare. Just lately the food smells funny, it's too hot ,it's not hot enough, is this the one we normally have, it just doesn't taste right, the plates, cups etc smell perfumed. To me it seems just an excuse not to eat. And believe me it's any excuse not to eat. But any amount of junk goes down a treat. I know the obvious answers, don't buy the crisps, chocolate, cake and biscuits. You try stopping her. It's like having a very grown up child. If food isn't hot enough, heat it, no, can't have that. If it's too hot , let it stand, good grief no, can't have it its too hot. You just can't reason with her. And that's only meal times. This isn't working, I'm even more awake now. The reason I'm concerned about her lack of normal appetite is over the last couple of years she's lost about forty lbs give or take. It's important too that she has a nutritional diet now more so than ever. But try telling her that. I know that there are lots of things I could try but one of the problems is that she doesn't like change. Just keeping to the tried and tested isn't working. If she had the choice she'd have beans on toast every meal. I've wondered if the dementia has altered her sense of taste. Anyway, best go now. Croissants for breakfast, can't go wrong there, can I? Al