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Oh, you betcha. Dr Jekyll and mr. Hyde. I found it helpful to recognize the negativity as ‘the disease’ and NOT my LO.
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peggy66 Your situation is not unique, as you have discovered here. I found with my Mom, especially after Dad died and she was upset over losing him ( of course).
I was upset b/c she would accuse me of lying when I told her this was the 6th time I had repeated myself to her questions. She was frustrated that she could not remember so many things. So I suggested that instead of spending our times together frustrated, angry or accusing, we should spend our time enjoying one another in the time she had left, however long that might be.... She totally agreed. This was something that I reminded her of 3 or 4 times as the days went by!! This was less than a year ago.......Now she mostly sleeps and only knows I am her daughter, but not which one!! So I am glad that we got our
"decision" made to laugh at the situation instead of cry about it!! God Bless!
Many great answers here. read thru them again and take the good ones to heart!
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I have found when I take my alz hubby shopping too much is too much for them. That brings on the worst just like a 5 yr old or if I show impatience (facial expressions too) they get testy. Soooo lessons learned. They only last so long & would rather be home sleeping or doing nothing. Remember in there world they can't change but we in our world can. Soooo if I'm calm he'said calm & maybe just a short drive no shopping. I don't think they enjoy going out to eat like we do either. Just join there world for a good life & get in a support grp.
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one time i went to shop got the stuff then bummer i ran out of checks so i had to go back home ..my mom was waiting ...!!! oh boy time !! well i had to leave the stuff at the store so i had to go back home to get checks so i got in all of the sudden my mom says you stole my money to pay for them i told her i didnt so i told her what happen ...& in the mean time she threaten to hit me with a glass elephant so got the checks with some then i took my truck back to the store ..she wanted to take her weapon in the store i told her that is not a good ideal ..so got lucky her former manager & mine to was there when we went in the store so that made things better ..so we talked & it made a difference so we got our stuff that we could they took the cart & dump a lot of other stuff in it so i got ours then she seen that i used my check so she cooled off on the way there & i knew that was true when we got there *& she wanted to take the elephant & i told her no so that was good ..would not look good for her if she did /.so they can change fast remember & keep tab that they lose track of thinking maybe a hour or 1/2 or 15 or 5 or even a minute & maybe seconds so figure it out & you can use that to your advantage ..i think it could help to figure out how long they have to live ask a doc maybe they know .no true thing on that but might be ..my mom i think is getting close she is so tired she dont remember in seconds she is holding water or a soda she falls a sleep a lot now ..this sucks i am giving vitamins & other pills to keep her going well that is that for now
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