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
info_outlineIn this episode, episode # 74 I’m a little bit all over the place with some things that I found on Facebook. I had joined some caregiving for dementia and Alzheimer’s support groups on Facebook. With being in those support groups, I have been able to come up with some really good content.
One of those things that I’ve seen in
these groups is someone had asked a question, If the medication that they were
giving their loved one would help? With dealing with dementia for or the past
6, 7, 8 years, I can honestly say that the medication does not seem to help a
whole lot other than the fact of making the one that you giving the medicine to
sleep all day long. I would rather have mom awake a little bit and have a
little bit of a hard time, then I would to have Mama sleep and be a zombie all
the time.
I also saw someone talking in the
group about putting their what I believe their mother in a home. they were
talking about their mothers dog having arthritis, and something about whether
or not to let their mother in the room when they put the dog down or whether or
not to go ahead and put the mother in the home before they put the dog down.
Well I’m a dog lover. So I would not put the dog down simply because he has
arthritis. I would not put the dog down simply because I was going to put my
mother in a home. My advice to this person was to see if the home would not
take the dog as well. I believe there are some nursing homes that will also
take pets. I talk about our dog here Bucky. It seems to perk Mama up a little
bit when Bucky comes around and is ready to play.
The other thing I have noticed that
seems to perk Mama up a little bit is the fact that our sitter that we have
come in to sit with mom. When we have to go out is the fact that the sitter has
a one year old grandchild that she brings with her and the baby seems to perk
Mama up as well. But then I also talk about Michael coming home from work that
seems to perk Mama up a little bit as well.
There was also someone in this
Facebook group that was talking about being harassed by members of the family.
My advice to that person was simply, don’t answer the phone. If they’re not
around to help you to give you support in any way shape or form. It’s really
none of their business. How, where or what you do to take care of the one that
your taking care of. I know in my instance I have 3 siblings that have just
absolutely abandoned mom not once but twice and I’m not sure that I’d even let
them in to see mom. Now after 6 years. Because it would just confuse mom, mom
wouldn’t have no idea who they are or anything else. They haven’t been around
to know what’s going on in the past 6, 7, 8 years. So why would I worry about
what they say about how to take care mom. They haven’t been around. I really
don’t care what they say. Sometimes you just have to tell them to kiss your you
know what, and go on about your every day caregiving for the one that your
caregiving for.