I am so sorry, I replied in the wrong spot, about my work in nursing homes, and my mother's diagnosis of MCI. What I did not say, because it is very new and very few people know, is that my husband has also been diagnosed with the same. It is very early and many days he is the person I have always known. And then he will have a spell where I can see the impairment, and back again. Sometimes he is grateful for my help. Other days he is insulted. It's hard to know what day we're on.

I saw this post on a difficult day, searching for validation that some of this fluctuation starts early. It's hard to know what is disease process, what is emotional reaction to the disease process, what is tangled in relationship dynamics from before all of this business. Insight fluctuates. Fear/anger fluctuates with it. Then he apologizes for bringing this into my life and we both crack open, and just cry. The tide comes in, the tide goes out.