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Praying For People With Dementia (Alzheimer's)

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Dr. Baruch Korman

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My Husband's Journey With Alzheimers

I did not know living with someone with alzheimers is difficult.  My husband was diagnosed February 2017 but his symptoms began September 2016.  His doctor says there are three levels of alzheimers; namely, mild, moderate and severe.  He is at the moderate stage.

July 20, 2017, we were married one year.  Some have asked me, "Didn't you see any signs of this before you married him?"

My answer is always the same, "No.  I did not." As I look back, I do recall when we were going to get our wedding rings, he stopped at a green traffic light.  I asked him what was he doing?  He was panicking.  He would not drive through the light.  There were incidents where he would repeatedly ask me how to get to a certain place after we had been there about ten times (literally). But after we married more things came quickly such as going into glares, more fidgeting than usual, easily agitated, etc. 

Repeatedly, I kept googling his symptoms.  It would always come back with alzheimers.  It took his neurologist
close to two months to give us his final diagnosis of alzheimers. 

Meanwhile, his personality is constantly changing for the worse.  He is even somewhat physically abusive. 

I sometimes think, "What happened to the man that I married?".  This nice man is somewhat gone.  All I constantly do is walk on eggshells trying not to upset him.  No one understands what I go through unless they have experienced it.  People say things such as, "I just talked with him for an hour.  He seems ok to me."

I have a friend who is a doctor who has told me, "Start videoing him when he acts up.  They will believe you then." I  told her that that was a good idea.

I can no longer sleep in the same bed with him.   He is constantly having nightmares.  Once he had five nightmares in one night.  His neurologist has taken him off his nightmare because he has increased it twice and it is not working.  Someone who works with Alzheimer's patient's  told me that the more the nightmares comes the worse his personality is going to get.

I am trusting GOD to see me through this situation.  Our LORD has said, "I never leave you nor forsake you.". I am trusting in HIM to do just that.