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Blaming and anger: How do you deal with it?
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Jan 31 8:00pm | Replies (87)Comment receiving replies
Thinking of you all during this holidays. My husband has the same technology confusion and other memory loss.
I made plans to get together with friends and family and had planned a really rich holiday season. Now I am at home with the flu and had to cancel our plans. My husband keeps asking me to go out with him. He doesn’t seem to understand that I can’t because I am not feeling well.
It is interesting that my husband does not seem to feel the loneliness or frustration as much as I do—as long as I am there to respond to all his requests.
Wishing you all a happy holiday.
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Teepa Snow said something like, "You may be one person in the world, but to one person, you are the world."
My husband is similar to yours in that it seems he believes I exist to take care of him. When I tell him I'm sick or ailing, it just leaves him, like water sliding off a duck's feathers. But appealing to him for help because I need it also works. So he wears a tracker because I've told him if I get sick or injured I need to find him so he can help me.
I've recently figured out that I have to outsmart Alzheimer's, find ways to get around it.
I hope you feel better. Flu is no fun.
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@grandmajoan Understand completely. HE is the really IMPORTANT ONE at our house, now. (Maybe he always was.) 😕