The last couple of days, he’s brooding over how long he has left to live. He says 28 but means 2028, which is 8 years after his dx in 2020. I say no one can predict, and 8 years might be an average. My husband is a brooder. Before his diagnosis, he tended to be […]
Burt’s p.o.v.
Burt had heard that the prognosis for dementia patients from, I guess, diagnosis was eight years. At the time I wrote about his brooding, he understood the expectation.
It had bothered him. I assured him that the prognosis was a guess, not a surety.
In the end, he only lasted five years. I think it had been enough for him. He seemed to be prepared for the end.
