Living Through a Spouse's Decline

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🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Dr. Laura gives Antoinette concrete ways to care for herself as she caregives her man. Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:23.6	Antoinette.
0:25.2	Welcome to the program.
0:27.8	Thank you for having me.
0:29.5	Taking my goal.
0:30.4	You're welcome.
0:31.9	What's up?
0:35.5	I'm feeling kind of depressed and I'm trying to handle it better than I am.
0:47.9	I had to put my husband into the Veterans Nursing home last January.
0:57.3	And, well, right before that, he was home with me,
1:00.9	and I had assistance, a little assistance, taking care of him.
1:05.3	He had COVID, and when he came home from the hospital, he was a different person.
1:13.1	He couldn't get out of bed anymore.
1:17.6	And the little dementia that he had, I think it just quadrupled.
1:23.7	Yeah, that could happen.
1:26.3	Yeah, this thing, all this, and trying to take care of him at home was just getting too much for me, so I'm guilty.
1:36.4	Because I put in there, it's an hour up and back for me, and I've been doing this since January.
1:44.0	Well, how often are you going up there?
1:46.6	How often are you doing this trip?
1:49.3	Every day.
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