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Husband calls my daughter looking for me

Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: 2 days ago | Replies (7)

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jsaved74,
My husband has Alzheimer's also, and he has done the same thing. My daughter is a schoolteacher, and she is very compassionate and has taken on the role of helping to calm down my husband when he gets upset. I am glad that he has someone to call and so far, she has kindly taken on this job. Sometimes his brain is remembering back 30 or 40 years so he thinks I should be young and pretty and instead I am a white-haired elderly woman. He has pointed to pictures of me when I was young and wondered where I was. Often, he thinks I am a caregiver who is not related to him. Sometimes I try to explain things to my husband and at other times I just let it go because it really won't change anything. I feel so sorry for him, it must be awful to be in his shoes. This is a horrible, horrible disease.

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@katrina123 Sometimes my husband looks at photos of me from the past and tells me, "That's Trisha, You're NOT Trisha"!
It hurts.