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What were the first dementia signs you noticed?
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My husband has started doing the hallucination thing, too. Not too often so far. He falls asleep in the recliner a lot, and it's usually been right after he wakes up. Sees an animal out the window, for example, when none is there. And he'll continue to insist there's one there for ten or fifteen minutes after he wakes up. He's also told me a couple of times that someone was looking in the bedroom window during the night or that a dog was outside that window. We're on a peninsula in a forest, so Peeping Toms are not likely. I figure it's some carryover from a dream.
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I wish I could tell you something that would help, but all I can do is let you know I care about what you're going through. I guess one thing that helped me in a way was realizing that he can't help it. Those times when I thought he hadn't been listening to me, he really just couldn't remember what I had said. I remembered arguments where I thought he was being unreasonable. Now I realize, he really CAN'T reason anymore. Now I try to comfort him instead of arguing. I stopped pointing out the mistakes he makes and try now to just love him the best I can. I'm sending prayers for you.