02-25-2019, 03:17 PM
Blown out life?
We are using Depends and they seem to mostly be up to the task. She usually sits in a recliner (not reclined) on a mattress pad. Same ones I use on the bed. When she starts getting fidgety, I ask her if she needs to go to the bathroom and the answer is usually yes, about every hour to hour and a half. There is also a vinyl padded chair that has a tray that clips on for her to eat on.
My wife is fairly healthy too. The only real med is for dementia (Donepezil). Everything else is just vitamins so only once a day.
Our son or his wife gives me a day off every now and then so it works out some. It's not like I can really go anywhere, usually a late breakfast out and a grocery store. I was gone for three months this summer, july - sept. I think it about did the kids in... Not sure if I'll get another outing until after she passes. She is still ambulatory and can say a few words, just not many. She screams at the TV all day and sometimes says she hates me to who I have no idea, which wears on me. In her lucid moments she wishes it was over.
We are using Depends and they seem to mostly be up to the task. She usually sits in a recliner (not reclined) on a mattress pad. Same ones I use on the bed. When she starts getting fidgety, I ask her if she needs to go to the bathroom and the answer is usually yes, about every hour to hour and a half. There is also a vinyl padded chair that has a tray that clips on for her to eat on.
My wife is fairly healthy too. The only real med is for dementia (Donepezil). Everything else is just vitamins so only once a day.
Our son or his wife gives me a day off every now and then so it works out some. It's not like I can really go anywhere, usually a late breakfast out and a grocery store. I was gone for three months this summer, july - sept. I think it about did the kids in... Not sure if I'll get another outing until after she passes. She is still ambulatory and can say a few words, just not many. She screams at the TV all day and sometimes says she hates me to who I have no idea, which wears on me. In her lucid moments she wishes it was over.
Brian
2000 Roadtrek 200 Versatile "The Beast" (it has been tamed hopefully) I feed it and it doesn't bite me.
2000 Roadtrek 200 Versatile "The Beast" (it has been tamed hopefully) I feed it and it doesn't bite me.


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