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My husband has mixed dementia or frontal temporal atrophy and is getting lupron for prostate cancer. It seems his condition is only getting worse as the dementia gets worse. He now as altered tissue perfusion and decreased ejection fracture with swelling to lower extremities. I spoke with urology oncology and they said to let cardiology handle the cardiac problems because the risk of having to deal with cancer of the prostate problems was something we did not want to deal with with his dementia, which is worse.

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janet7 | @janet7 | Aug 19, 2023

Hi, I am Janet and I want to say what you are going thru sounds familiar to me. My husband, who is 80, has frontal Dementia, heart failure and prostate cancer.
The heart failure is our first priority, then Dementia and the Cancer is last. It seems the Cancer is very slow growing as is the Dementia. The heart failure has led us to the ER and being hospitalized recently, and is constantly ongoing. He takes about 14 medications and has a long list of medical issues.
We cope as best we can, but finances are a problem and will only increase with time. One Day at a Time is our motto.

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