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HipChick

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14. Please make sure you also take care of yourself..

Sun Oct 21, 2018, 11:04 AM

Oct 2018

I'm pretty much on the verge of taking early retirement, and moving back home for same reason. My dad spends a lot of the time pissing mum off, not intentionally , but putters around the house trying to do things...he used to be an electrical engineer, and now, he can barely screw in a lightbulb. Mum spends a lot of the time, crying and is barely coping seeing her life partner going downhill. Work is going through voluntary layoffs, so I'm going to take a buyout and figure out the rest of it, later. I don't know how much time I have left with mum and dad, and my priority is them.
Now my dad can tell you, repeatedly anything in the past, in great detail, but not much in the future.

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I am about to become an Alzheimer's caregiver [View all] jmowreader Oct 2018 OP

Find the local Alzheimer's Association in your city question everything Oct 2018 #1

Sounds like early stages. sheshe2 Oct 2018 #2

Does he do those things? ghostsinthemachine Oct 2018 #3

He used to like to build things with wood jmowreader Oct 2018 #6

Then he might like that ghostsinthemachine Oct 2018 #8

Kicking and Recommend. sheshe2 Oct 2018 #4

Fantastic, hadn't heard of it at the time. area51 Oct 2018 #11

rent some little kids to have around Kali Oct 2018 #5

We're having a family meeting on Wednesday jmowreader Oct 2018 #7

I'm a caregiver for my wife. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's demosincebirth Oct 2018 #9

Thanks for that jmowreader Oct 2018 #10

So sorry to hear this, duforsure Oct 2018 #12

When I was taking care of my parents (father with Alzheimer's, mother with vascular dementia) enough Oct 2018 #13

Please make sure you also take care of yourself.. HipChick Oct 2018 #14