My husband got lost several times, too, going to places he had been innumerable times before. When that happened the first time, I knew things were going wrong. Naturally, my first thought was Alzheimer's, but the neurologist ruled that out. His problems are due to the strokes. As I said in my original post, we didn't even see signs of most of the strokes, which is frightening. Every time I get a headache now, I wonder if it's a TIA.

I have been lucky in that my husband gave up driving on his own. Now, that's not to say that won't change. As his condition progresses, he might start thinking he can do it again. He mentioned just yesterday that he thought he'd be able to drive when we were talking about going down to one car since I was the only one driving. I reminded him that he'd gotten lost, and he dropped the subject, but who knows?

I'm also glad that I was always the one who took care of the bills and other things related to finances, too. What I'm having trouble with are things that need to be done around the house and property. Not so much trouble getting them done because if I can't do it and a neighbor can't, I hire someone who can. But I'm not sure I always recognize what all needs to be done because he always handled that. I'm learning, though, and I remind myself that I'd have to do all this if I was single. It helps that I was single for a lot of my younger years, so I've just got to get back in the habit of being in charge of everything myself.