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Dealing with a Spouse with a “Mild Cognitive Impairment”
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@labrown Love it. You soon learn how their thought processes have changed. My husband was so organized. He had a place for everything in it's place. Now all of his things are on part of the kitchen island i.e. all 6 pairs of his reading glasses in a perfect row, all 3 pair of his gloves etc. When he is in the bedroom or master closet I often go in an help him just so I know where he is putting things. The other day he came in and started complaining that the master closet cubbies were all taken by my things-only 2/3 of them. I cleaned out a bunch by his cubbies and now he has 21 of them and they are all empty. A couple of days later he asked me if I had thrown some of my clothes out. He then suggested I put some of my shoes in the cubbies-shoes I had put on floor when he complained about all of my things in the cubbies. Keeps you busy!
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@lizzabeth Remember it's talking to talk and doing things to do things because the brain can't quite remember how it used to be. I'm sure you've walked into a room and thought, " Now what did I come in here for?" That's because you were thinking about something else after you decided to get the item from the room. In other words, very short term memory was impaired. You also probably dreamed you were at home and you were convinced of that, but upon awakening , you realized nothing looked right at all. In dementia short term and intermediate term memory is impaired and distortions in reality exist.
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@lizzabeth Understand completely. Thankfully we each have a walk in closet and he knows to stay out of mine…🙂