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I don't know why I did that

Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: 1 day ago | Replies (44)

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@chris20

There are so many things that don't make sense. My wife still likes to do this dishes by hand; I fix all the meals. On one occasion she broke a glass making a trip to the ER necessary for stitches. If I don't dry and put away the dishes, she puts them away in unusual places. She recently started drying the pans by putting them on the stove and turning the burner on high. Then forgetting. Recently she was viewing a FB video clip on her cell phone, which she mostly doesn't know how to use for anything else, and she watched a clip that was on a 20 second repeat loop, for an hour and a half. I asked her why she was watching the same thing over and over(the audio was very irritating) and she insisted she wasn't. Eventually the phone ran out of juice and had to be recharged. And she still insists that a neighbor stole their giant lawn roosters from us. They are quite ugly and we never had such things on our lawn. I catch her giving the dog bits of chocolate and when I tell her that will make him sick, she denies that she did it. Very frustrating.

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Oh, dear. These behaviors are very, very challenging. How in the world are we all going to get through this and still have some quality in our own lives? That sounds harsh, I know, but I feel I've been given an indeterminate sentence along with my husband. I know I won't get my husband back the way he used to be, but I'd like to feel some of the freedom I used to have. How does one adjust to being a caretaker and still have a life of our own?