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@jeanadair123 My husband has moderate to severe dementia. He can't seem to stop picking at his dry skin (which he picks until it bleeds), or any bandage that he has where he can reach it. This compulsive picking is a symptom of dementia. No amount of scolding him or reminding him that he needs to leave the bandages on will change his behavior because he is no longer rational. What irks me is that he bleeds on the sheets, and those blood stains require extra treatment when laundering them. Recently he had a basal cell carcinoma lesion removed from his left forearm. It has been a real challenge to keep that open wound covered. What I have used that helps if the bandage is on an arm or leg is a dressing called Coban. It comes on a roll and sticks to itself. It is the type of dressing that is typically used when you give blood at the lab or donate blood. It is hard to find the end to remove it. Hope this helps.
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@ocdogmom Oh! My that really helps. Thank goodness for mayo connect how would we ever know this? I just lost it again it has been just over two weeks since they did the skin graft from behind his ear to his nose for his skin cancer. I called the dr and they said I could take the bandage off and just use the aqua porh which is what I did until I noticed he is picking at the skin graft and I lost it, it makes me crazy it’s every night something happens and I can’t sleep. Tomorrow I am having a pelvic, abdomen and chest ct having had cancer 3 times I am always skeptical as I await the results. It’s amazing that my husbands blood tests always come out great it must be from the lupron and now the nubeqa pills his psa went to 0.09 amazing, and of course the great care he gets and the fact he has no stress? 😁. I desperately need some time alone, he is now yelling at me which is what my father did and the reason I left home. It took me years to stop shaking and I feel it returning?
I went to the senior day care today and picked up a package they have m-f 8-5pm. If they will allow it I may try one day a week but only for a few hours at the beginning. We tried it out for an hour before but his words as I left were are you abandoning me. It would feel great to be on my own for a while. Thank you so much again.