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92 years and trucking along

There are so many times that at weird times run thru my mind. There are times that i have seen things move around me like im not even in this world. There are times that i am so worried about how my kids are going to be when i am getting old. It scares me so much. I sit and watch Grandma F, sitting on the couch, kinda just there. She cant really see to well, or hear to well either. It scared me one day when we all went to the mall and she climbed in the car and she was out of breathe and it freaked me out. I was really worried that she might die in my car and 911 wouldn’t get there fast enough. I think if we were to ask the dr. for a respironics oxygen concentrator, if it would help her with her shortness of breathe. I might mention to someone about this. She has lived a long and great life and has been great to my kids, she is such a sweet person, im grateful for knowing her.

Posted on 29 May '10 by admin, under dementia, family, friends, health, home, kids, personal. No Comments.

Something i stress..

to everyone that i know. You need to make sure that the as your parents get older in life, you need to make sure that their paper work for their future is in order. I can tell you from experience that if you dont have them up to date, it will make things for the future a living hell. We are going thru this now with my MIL, and its so not fun. You need to get life insurance online quotes so that you can plan for the future, for your parents and for yourself. I know you might think well, ill take care of it one day, well that one day might be too late.

Posted on 5 April '10 by admin, under dementia, family, friends, health, kids. No Comments.

A warning to my friends..

I have said this time and time again… and i will continue to say it cuz what we have gone thru with my MIL. You need to make sure that when your parents that are getting older, have all the proper paper work in line and up to date. Everything needs to be in order in case something like dementia. Its a nasty disease and its not fun to watch it take the one that you love from you, slowly. It is hard to watch or even talk to my MIL now, she just sits and mumbles or has conversations with herself. There was a day that we were showing her pics of the boys and she like started crying cuz she couldnt remember the boys. She didnt remember seeing them in the NICU shortly after they were born. It was the longest 10 min there was cause every 3 minutes she would ask use the same question over and over. I know in time we are going to have to do funeral planning, and that is going to be the hardest thing we have to do and it will not be pleasant. It will be hard for my husband cuz she is all he has left besides me and the boys.

Please get all papers together even for yourself to make things easier in the future.

Posted on 28 February '10 by admin, under alzheimer's, dementia, family, friends, health. No Comments.