Early on in our journey Yvonna our local Lloyd’s Pharmacist alerted me to the importance of DNA once your loved one has a diagnosis of dementia. Her message of Do Not Absorb became particularly pertinent yesterday.
I returned home from my meeting with the CCG yesterday to a litany of complaints about Hilary the Carer who had been with Maureen during my absence. Maureen thought she was a spy trying to find out about us with her endless questions. I went along with Maureen’s reality and agreed that we didn’t need any more nosey people in our lives.
Following a siesta in the afternoon Maureen thought I was her brother: she asked me lots of questions about my wife and daughters. Once again I didn’t challenge her reality and blagged my way through a challenging hour or so. I changed things by going out to the shops and when I returned I was back as Maureen’s husband: her brother never surfaced with that shopping.
The interesting thing about the evening was we spent a second night together in the marital bed: sleeping of course. For the second night running we went upstairs together and slept in our front bedroom as if that was what we always did.
I’ve just remembered I need to pop into our local pharmacy with some fruit this morning, as I caught one of them buying a stash of biscuits the other day. Someone needs to remind them about healthy eating: they can’t always expect ice cream as a sincere token of our thanks for such excellent support.
Neuropathy Nightmare 
How wonderful! A time to cherish 😊 And yes, we professionals need more than chocolate 😉 x x
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I’ve justy taken the new 5 a day to the Pharmacy and included chocolate to ensure I’m falling in with ‘nice’ Guidelines!
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😄😄 x x
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Perfect examples of “Going with the flow.” More about that here: http://myalzheimersstory.com/2015/08/22/the-g-in-bangs-5-great-ways-to-stop-dementia-anger-aggression-and-anxiety-in-their-tracks/
You are a star Paul ❤
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Trial and error is all there is with this condition. A little bit of luck on the clothing crisis would be helpful at this moment in time Susan: send me some please!
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Like you I always just take whatever John says as reality and go with that, keeps things calm.
With clothing; for both Mum and John I gradually eliminated clothes that were more difficult to put on or launder, I found that easiest.
Both Mum and John are rummagers and pull everything out of cupboards. In the bedroom I left the clothes that were not often worn and I set up shelves in the lounge where I kept the clothes we were using. This way I was able to lay my hands on the clothes required and not have to spend half an hour finding two sox the same.
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Maureen is also a rummager Diane, I thjink it is a time filler. I often spend time playing a game of pairing up socks a sort of competition each morning to see how many I can find.
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