27 Months Without Mommy
Caregiving For Dementia
This is just an update of the family. 27 Months after losing Mommy!
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Life After Caregiving Part 2
Caregiving For Dementia
This Episode is a continuation of what went on after Mommy was picked up.
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Life After Care Giving
Caregiving For Dementia
This is the first of a few episodes that goes through what you may feel right immediately after your loved one passes away. There's not a whole lot of show notes of these episodes it's just me talking about what happened immediately after mommy's death. What I thought would happen that didn't and that kind of thing. I hope these few episodes help you get along for a few months immediately following your loved one's death.
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A Happy Thanksgiving Message
Caregiving For Dementia
This episode is a brief message to all those who are still downloading the podcast happy Thanksgiving to all
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Caregiving journey ended
Caregiving For Dementia
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The hardest talk a family can never have.
Caregiving For Dementia
Episode # 93 There comes a time in caregivers journey that they know time is very close to running out. We hear caregiving for dementia have realized that fact. The past five days Mama has not eat anything at all, the past four days Mama has not drank anything, and for the past three days Mama’s been very hard to wake up at all. When she is awake it’s about two minutes and she’s right back out. Mamas, breathing has also changed its no longer normal breathing. Doesn’t look the same, doesn’t sound the same as the normal breathing does Mama breeze through her mouth...
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Things we take for granted as Caregivers
Caregiving For Dementia
Episode #92 Show Notes There are so many things in life that normal people take for granted. This becomes more apparent the longer you take care of your loved one. There are things that I take for granted because there things that come natural to me that Mama can no longer do for herself. Mama can no longer wash her face, brush her hair, brush her teeth, or even talk. Mama tries so hard to talk to us and you can see the frustration in her face as she tries to say something and can’t. Mama tries to hold a cup of something to drink and because of her Parkinson’s she...
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Caregiving Mistakes,Regrets
Caregiving For Dementia
In your caregiving a lot of times you do things in the heat of the moment. After time goes by you wonder whether or not what you did was the right thing to do.
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Caregiving Mistakes/Regrets
Caregiving For Dementia
Episode #91 Show Notes In your caregiving a lot of times you do things in the heat of the moment. After time goes by you wonder whether or not what you did was the right thing to do. A lot of caregivers won’t tell you everything that they go through in their caregiving. I am one of those people who won’t tell you every little thing that goes on in in the house with the caregiving I am one that won’t tell you what Mama has done to us I won’t tell you what we’ve done to Mama. What I tried to do in this podcast is tell you what we do and what we don’t do because...
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Know It All Doctors
Caregiving For Dementia
While in your caregiving journey there will be a lot of things that happened that you don’t understand. I know when not when we first started there was a whole lot that went on that we didn’t understand there’s a whole lot that I haven’t gone into with this podcast that went on when Mama first got dementia. That’s one reason why I started this podcast
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, I talk a little bit about Easter When I was a kid. Easter
is a holiday for the children. When I was a kid, one of the 1st
signs of spring was Easter. One of the 1st signs of Easter was the
fact that we were able to go out and get some dress close to where for Easter
Sunday.
I talk about Mama not remembering those times. The times when
we were kids and we went out my front yard running colored eggs for Easter, the
times where we all got candy for Easter Mama doesn’t remember any of that.
One of the other things that really stick out is the fact
that Easter is a Christianity holiday. It’s a holiday where Christians
celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
It used to be that whenever I wanted to know anything about
the Bible or the church. I could go to Mama and say, Mama, what does this mean,
what does that mean? And usually Mama knew right off the top of her head what
things were. But with this devastating disease called, dementia, Mama can no
longer do that. Mama no longer remembers the holidays and things of that sort.
I literally had to look up on the web, the true meaning of
Easter. But anytime we look up anything like that giving with religion on the
web. We always look at our King James version of the Bible. To make sure the
web says exactly what the Bible says. In years past, all would’ve had to done
would’ve been gone to Mama.
This dementia has taken all of mamas memories of not just the
Easter holiday, but all of the holidays. Mama no longer remembers any holiday
of the year she doesn’t remember doing anything that we did as kids she doesn’t
remember anything much about anything. Dementia has turned my mother back into
a child. I seen on Facebook. The other day a picture of 2 people holding onto a
child below that picture was 2 people holding on to an older person and that
made perfect sense, because that’s exactly what dementia does. When your kid
you got mommy’s fingers in one hand daddy’s fingers in the other hand, trying
to walk. As time goes on, we get older our parents get older and sometimes they
get dementia and when that happens, they no longer have your hands, but you
have their hands.