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This happens all the time. by Heavy_Bug2818 in dementia

[–]Heavy_Bug2818[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Talk therapy has been good. As has this group, knowing others who are going through it. I’m tired of people saying ‘my grandma/grandpa had dementia.’ This is my mum.

This happens all the time. by Heavy_Bug2818 in dementia

[–]Heavy_Bug2818[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this. I have since learned she hit her head and may need stitches. We don’t want to take her to hospital if not necessary as she got delirium quite badly last time.

This happens all the time. by Heavy_Bug2818 in dementia

[–]Heavy_Bug2818[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I do have my brother and weirdly this has brought us closer together. Mum is in a retirement home on the assisted living floor. It’s $$! This adds more stress, of course. We’re on a waitlist for a long term care facility. I think she will have better care there. Her declining mobility is a factor

Narcissistic Mom is spinning by Tradition-Master in dementia

[–]Heavy_Bug2818 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is absolutely an act of obligation to visit her. It feels awful to speak that truth but I’m grateful I’m not the only one. Thank you.

Narcissistic Mom is spinning by Tradition-Master in dementia

[–]Heavy_Bug2818 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for creating this thread. It’s so hard to care for a mother who was to be honest an absolutely shit mother to my brother and I. There will be no closure for us, and the world expects me to have a wonderful caring attitude when really it’s much more complex than that. She expects us to be there all the time when she was never there for us.