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Dealing with a Spouse with a “Mild Cognitive Impairment”
My husband was diagnosed with MCI in 2019. He is pretty independent, just forgetful of time, dates, location of places, anything electronic & events from our life together (we’ve been married 52 years). It’s all just getting to me. I find myself wanting to be alone so I’m not continuously reminded of these changes. Because my friends/family are out of state, working, or involved with their own families, I really have no one to talk to so I’m seeing a therapist twice a week to deal with the sadness, anger, grief I have over his condition. I just wonder if other women find themselves in this position & how they are dealing with it.
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I want to age in place, which I've already done. I'm nearly 97, so probably not too much ageing left. I live with my son, and he does everything. I get around with a cane, outside with a walker.
I count my blessings daily.
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2 ReactionsI was furious at my husband when he died; I felt he was responsible due to his lifestyle, smoking, and addicted to salt, every meal white with salt. He was only 63, and I was 57 at the time. We talked about it the night before he went into the hospital. He assured me he wouldn't die. Two days later, I had a call to come in. Immediately, I knew he was gone.
The doctor came into the little room they had put me in and announced in one sentence *Your husband died at 11:35, can we have his parts?" I was in shock, replied that it was up to my son. My son said no. We had been married for 39 years, I was completely lost, had never been on my own, and grieved him for a very long time. Eventually, I remarried, only to lose my second husband to cancer after 20 years.
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