AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh - Alzheimers

[DTCwordfan]

(i) - come back and all the tv cables are ripped out. 20 mins to repair them

(ii) - then an article on the News involving deaf people (local news). "Thank goodness I have no handicapped grandchildren" - "Duhhhhh, you only have two grandchildren, one male and one female, who are profoundly deaf."

"No, I don't", indignantly...........

"Well, that is how good that they are, in covering their handicap....." One who is playing flute on the basis of vibrations and a junior Northern English Hockey Squad member, the other with superb GCSE and wanting to become a dentist....

She still refuses to believe what I say......agggghhh - Alzheimers, seriously I do not want any of you to undergo this, though there are some of you out there already (knowing a couple of you in the same boat).

Now patience, DTC, or you will explode - or where is the wine glass?

[Jeza]

DT I truly sympathise. Enjoy your wine.

[naomi24]

Been there, dunnit, and got the T-shirt. My sympathies are with you - but remember patience dear chap - always patience. x

[HowardKennitby]

Not a lot I can say to help here. Are you getting all the support you are due from Council Services?

[Ann]

Pardon DT??? Me non comprendo ...................

[rsvp]

I missed the run up to this but........to quote Fraiser -" This is Frasier Crane, I'm listening"

[mike11111]

Eh? Want me to ring NHS Direct?

[MissCommando]

Aww, I work in an EMI unit and some days I can't wait to go home.

Bless you, can I ask who you are referring to? Your wife? x

[DTCwordfan]

"Je suis ok" - just ranting......

One has to keep the "patience" though.....

[DTCwordfan]

Nope, Miss C, the mater.

[naomi24]

... and remember also, your patience should not only extend to the sufferer. ;o)

[Maydup]

Respect DTC, respect.

[Ann]

O poor you DT, I understand now. Elderly mothers do need a lot of patience, I know, believe me.............but mine doesn't have Alzheimers, and I still don't have any patience!

[DTCwordfan]

Actually it is probably more a comment made to me over the weekend.

We were discussing the relative slides of relatives, our beliefs on this side being to keep the family "Dame" in her own (isolated) home as long as possible.

Then came an interesting challenge.

"Well, if you were to put her in a home, after three days would she know the difference?"

I admit that is a hell of a question and maybe right, but then is that belief that keeping them in their own place is for the better for their lives, but then what for?

So that is what is underpinning the rant, perhaps. Comprenez?

[owdhamer]

Good evening crossie I was talking to the owner of a local pub grub and told her I had parkinsons,yes I thought so she said my father in law who is a doctor suffers with it I happened to mention it to Alec who denied his father suffered.

[Jeza]

I walked for 2 miles to buy a piece of finny haddock as mum called it. When I got back she said, You have been ages I don't fancy it now. Mum's don't you just love em.

[Ann]

How old is she DT? My friend eventually had to put a relative in a home and it was the making of her, she had let herself go completely living on her own after her husband died, they thought she would die within weeks, but in a lovely care home she was in her element, she improved so much, she lived for another 8 years and enjoyed her final years!

[mike11111]

When, back in the early 70s, I suggested to my mother that we should exchange our B/W televison for a colour one, she replied, "I don't want one of those, I wouldn't know how to work it!"

[DTCwordfan]

the said pub is our local, some two miles from here......and they are very good for her. Went for a meal last week which sort of registered. Anyway, said I was going over there and the usual rigmarole of where? But then the added twist which my sis and her friends have had, "Oh I went there recently with Dad"

Now that hasn't happened to me personally, and I can live with it, gently correcting her earlier - but it probably underpinned the above.

[DTCwordfan]

lol Mike - technically the mater is useless and you can do all sorts to keep her away from all the cables under the box - (you name it we have done it, short of major work on burying all the wires into the wall) - it doesn't work though.

And don't mention washing machines, cookers etc.

Christ, I hope I never end up like this....

[Jeza]

DT. Without wishing to be rude / unkind it sounds to me as if you are thinking of a care home. If I am wrong then I truly apologise.