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Seeing child-like behaviors in loved one, anyone else?

Posted by judimahoney @judimahoney, Aug 23, 2024

Wondering if anyone else is seeing regression to child-like behaviors in their loved one? My husband is now watching children's cartoons, and has similar reactions to content that a child would.
When not watching cartoons, when he's happy or excited about something he says, "yeah!" The something may be that we are going out to run errands, or that dinner is served.

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minniem | @minniem | Jan 30 5:38am
In reply to @karen285 "I really related to your well-chosen description “living in a state of limbo and anticipatory grief”...." + (show)
@karen285

I really related to your well-chosen description “living in a state of limbo and anticipatory grief”. My husband of 14 years (second marriage for both) was diagnosed with MCI due to Alzheimer’s disease in 2019 and now it’s Moderate Dementia due to AD. Typically I’m very much a planner but now everything is fluid. It’s so anxiety provoking. I’m trying to make plans about future care, including possibly going into a memory care unit but the variables are monumental in trying to assess what’s next. One day life is uneventful and the next his symptoms are exacerbated. His balance and gait problems resulted in 9 falls in the last 6 months, 2 into the lagoon in our back yard in Florida. (We have a yard man now so that’s fixed that problem.) One night at 2 am he fell getting out of bed because he had a fever that results in a spike in all dementia symptoms. I was overwhelmed and called the fire dept non emergency basis for help with fallen individual. I laugh now but imagine … 2 fire/rescue trucks arrived and I had 8 very large (quite handsome) firefighters all in my bedroom at one time. So there are moments of humor along the journey 🤪. I’m still trying to make plans though …..

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Thank you for mentioning the gait. My husband walks like this and combined with osteoporosis, he walks slowly and tentatively. It is helpful to know that someone else understands. No doctors have addressed what might help, so i hired a personal trainer. The PT is working on my husband’s strength. ( this is another cost that is eating into our savings, but that is a different matter. )

The Mayo Clinic was one of the few that had my husband walk as part of the examination.

I am laughing at the fire department scene. Been there done that- and yes, had to laugh!

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minniem | @minniem | Jan 30 5:40am

If I am talking about something he does not like, he will put his fingers in his ears and say “nah nah” over and over again while shaking his head

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