Alzheimer’s is an orderly dementia. It progresses in stages. There is a pattern as its awful symptoms afflict your loved one over time.
No dementia is easy. They are each unique.
Lewy Body is unpredictable.
Symptoms come and go.
You and your person can be plunged into troubling situations one day, only to have a better week the next.
Your sweet spouse is wracked with confusion or anger or anxiety. Or all three.
This track of thought came to me during a webinar by Jim Taylor of Voices of Alzheimer’s. Jim spoke of the partnership he and his wife Geri had as she struggled through the early stages of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Burt plunged into dementia with delusions, hallucinations, and other behavioral manifestations. Some of this was ameliorated by medicines.
His symptoms did not encourage me to try to work in tandem on planning. It all felt very much like the disruptive emergency it was.
Today, it might be a good day. His confusion and cognitive impairment make even simple plans hard.
When your loved one has dementia, you are living a disease that is built for two.
Symptoms come and go.
And just as a reminder, see The Gift.
this is our life 