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Dealing with a Spouse with a “Mild Cognitive Impairment”
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@kmliste yes, it is exhausting and very stressful. Participating here and reading everyone’s comments helps me - I don’t feel so alone. My husband also gets confused and forgetful when his environment changes - so Christmas and New Year’s was hard for him. He couldn’t remember who was coming to visit or dinner or where we were going and kept asking me questions about it. A year or two ago it drove me crazy, but now I have learned to just answer him clearly each time. It keeps things much more relaxed that way. I don’t know what the future might bring, so I try to enjoy what we have now - but truly sometimes it’s very hard.
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@elm123 I'm trying to do the same thing; enjoy what we have now. and I'm trying so hard not to "ruminate" over all of this. I said I wasn't going to start the year with medical issues, and the phone rang this morning, and now there is something else to deal with. All of it, is so troubling as when we worked full time, in a job/career, who had time, but then we were young and we weren't faced with all of this. I remember everything about cancer, both my parents died from it, I never heard anything about mild cognitive impairment, althzeimer's etc., but it had to be there back then. Yes, I'm trying to answer clearly too, and enjoy what we still have. Thanks for your share.