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Spouse with cognitive problems and finances
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Dec 30, 2022 | Replies (290)Comment receiving replies
Will is also obsessed with sweets of all kinds, more so now than ever before. He can go a whole day just eating sweets.
His Dementia started after his heart surgery back in 2014. After surgery, he had 2 mini-strokes and it took him 4 days to come out of the anesthesia. I was afraid he never would. He was in rehab and of course he wanted to come home but was having some other issues. He started getting upset with me because he thought I didn’t want him to come home.
Years later, we went on vacation with another couple and that was a disaster! We all got to our cabin, and the next morning, he got me up early to show me the other man’s car had been moved overnight, and what would he be up to! He and that man never did get along and we had to leave early because Will was so suspicious of the other man.
Now we knew this couple several years before we went on vacation together because we played cards with them, the other man usually won. I thought we always had fun when we were with them. I remained friends with the couple and they belonged to my church.
None of us have ever talked about what happened on that vacation. Will has always been kind of a loner.
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Your cabin vacation sounds a bit like Bill. We had a cabin and he would invite people up (like family) and then get upset about something and make everyone miserable. He never wanted anyone to stay long and if they did he would get into a snit. Of course, at that point they would leave. So therefore, we ended up with few visitors.
In retrospect I think our KY doctor suspected he had beginning dementia (one reason for one of the meds) but never put it in words or tested for it. She did document everything she told him - more than she normally would have had to - as he would deny she told him something during the next visit. And he would never follow her directions on sleep medications. Self protection.
I also didn't pay much attention to the blood test results - no idea about CKD until the move back to Phoenix when he was shown to be at Stage 3 within a month of moving here. Of course there wouldn't have been anything different she would have done other then the medications he was already on. And she might have told him when I wasn't with him and it didn't 'register' with him.
It sounds like your Will and my Bill have some things in common - like sweets!