Hi, it's quite a while since I visited TP, I gave up work at Christmas to spend more time with my husband who was diagnosed with AD a year ago. He is 66, I am 58.
When I worked he was phoning me all the time asking where things were in the house and generally panicking over the smallest problem. I was constantly worried about him. His last memory test was better that the previous one.
Now I'm at home he seems fine, we have the odd argument when he forgets that I'm looking after our grandson at our home on certain days, he seems to want my to himself all the time. I work voluntary in a shop one morning a week.
I know his memory is not too good, he is always misplacing things and he cannot do tasks in the house like he used to, he's quite happy to let me do them, he is also getting stubborn.
Can anyone tell me how long he might stay like this, I am always wondering if he could be like this for the next few years, I worry about the future but sometimes cannot imagine him getting any worse. Does it creep on gradually? I know all cases are different, maybe he is slowly getting worse but I don't notice.
Isn't this a terrible illness, I can't imagine what my husband must be thinking, he is quite upbeat most of he time so we don't talk about it.
Dee
When I worked he was phoning me all the time asking where things were in the house and generally panicking over the smallest problem. I was constantly worried about him. His last memory test was better that the previous one.
Now I'm at home he seems fine, we have the odd argument when he forgets that I'm looking after our grandson at our home on certain days, he seems to want my to himself all the time. I work voluntary in a shop one morning a week.
I know his memory is not too good, he is always misplacing things and he cannot do tasks in the house like he used to, he's quite happy to let me do them, he is also getting stubborn.
Can anyone tell me how long he might stay like this, I am always wondering if he could be like this for the next few years, I worry about the future but sometimes cannot imagine him getting any worse. Does it creep on gradually? I know all cases are different, maybe he is slowly getting worse but I don't notice.
Isn't this a terrible illness, I can't imagine what my husband must be thinking, he is quite upbeat most of he time so we don't talk about it.
Dee