PERTZ

My mom is in her last stages of this terrible disease


I am goin through a horrible time with her and she is on hospice now

totally helpless

Can't walk, can't feed herself, can,t talk hardly and can,t do anything.

It is the worst thing a caregiver will EVER go through!!!!!!!!!

My dad is in early stages of it..... He is 83 and can't be left alone at all..... I am hoping that they are correct with some of the theories...... I do the Jumble, Crossword, and the Crypto in the daily paper and have been for about 10 years..... They say that this kind of activity will reduce your chances by as much as 50 percent.... I hope so for I am a baby boomer and so are you Pertz........

Unless Unless you can AFFORD a nursing home!

i had to watch my father at home sometimes after the nurse left so it was an ordeal. one time he called me from downstaires and i got out of my bed and fell down the staires because i was rushing to see what he needed.

asmerelda,

i did not have a life and still do not have one because i have to watch over my mother now. last week she fell asleep with something cooking on the stove and almost caught our house on fire.

oops daughter


miamiman this is just horrible

well my brother helps out but my sister does not have anything to do with it so we left the house here in me and my brothers name and that is finalized now. also we put the house overseas in me and my brothers name only.

My sister in law wrote and published a book on dealing with her mother's Alzheimer's. It really for the care takers. It's Called Mothering Mother: A daughter's humorous and heartbreaking memoir. By Carol o'Dell http://www.kunati.com/mothering-mother-memoir-by-car/ I hope this link works:

My brother seems like he might be in denial sometimes

I had a uncle who had it OMG it the worst thing for everyone to go threw..

Oh he done some funny things because of it but still it hard on the whole family...

Worst thing was he was always tearing everything appart..Th phone the plumming everything..

He was the family fix it stuff after he retired from post office..So if he was not watched he take stuff appart...