h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Weekends can be a bear. I try to work at the computer and/or watch TV and my bride will come into the room more frequently than before. Even if I try to keep her company she still wants to go on road trips. She will say, "Just a little one." But taking her somewhere such as a store and then bringing her back home won't work. She is getting more confused. When I take her for a ride the first thing I say is "seatbelts" as I lock my belt in place. She automatically reaches to the area I lock my belt. Telling her that it is on her other side sometimes helps but often I have to show her where to grab the belt and more often than not I end up locking the belt for her.

When she goes upstairs to bed I have to remind her she can turn the light on in the stairway and the bedroom and I have to point out where the light switch is located. When she is upstairs she seems to have forgotten where the swith is so she turns the bedroom light off at the light fixture which leaves the other light on the stairway still on. At night when she gets up to go to the w.c. she will use the switch to turn on the stairway light but when she goes back to bed she leaves the light over the stairway on.

While she showers I have to take her dirty clothes and put them in the clothes basket and then after she showers I have to wait at the stairs in case she forgets or can't find her clothes which are sitting right where she towels off. The last shower she grabbed the dirty trousers out of the dirty clothes basket.

You have my sympathy - and admiration for your great care. My mother is going demented very fast now.

I feel for you and your family. I suspect that you are going through more trying times than me. Thank you for your symapathy. I take the easy way out. I bury my head in the sand and pretend everything is fine. Problem is it is hard breathing under those conditions after awhile.

You both are facing very testing & trying times - I don't know how you both are coping - I just hope I don't have to face such problems, I'm sure I duck under the duvet too - maybe with a snorkel for air?

Love to you both & sorry for being away for so long.