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I very much connect with what you’ve said. My husband has faced a variety of illnesses in the past 2 years: prostate cancer, radiation, severe low back pain withradiculopathy from spinal,stenosis, bilateral, two-level laminectomies and foraminotomies, pneumonia with sepsis, mild dementia . Recently he had a UTI after his urologist performed a cystoscopy, and the last month he has deteriorated both physically and mentally. He often doesn’t know if it’s day or night, says bizarre things not connected to reality, and is increasingly needy, lonely and sad. Very difficult to watch and live through

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@schenelly - Wow…you have a lot going on! I’m so sorry.

@schenelly -I wanted to add your descriptive words would also be an accurate description of how my husband is feeling: needy, lonely and sad. He can still stay home while I do errands, go to appointments etc, but often he comes out to the garage as soon as I pull in. Sometimes I just sit in the driveway for a couple of minutes to pull my thoughts together before coming indoors. But we will continue to try to find interesting things and people to interact with. So hard. He’s scared, and so am I.