My Husband is Dying While I'm Trying to Live

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🗓️ 1 December 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Sue needs a strategy for how to keep living her life while her husband deteriorates in a memory care facility. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph 111. Sue, welcome to the program.
0:15.7	I'm calling because my husband has familial early onset Alzheimer's and we got the diagnosis in 2020.
0:26.6	Well, it's, pardon me, it's not like it's a surprise, but yeah, it's not good, but okay.
0:35.6	And he's been in memory care for a year and a half,
0:42.4	and we got the diagnosis in 2020,
0:46.0	but of course, you know, the 10 years before that were not fun.
0:52.9	I'm trying to figure out how. What do you mean? What do you mean it was not fun. I'm trying to figure out how.
0:56.1	What do you mean?
0:56.7	What do you mean it was not fun?
1:00.0	My husband has a good word.
1:03.7	He started pulling away from me.
1:09.9	I mean, he's a nice, he was, how do I say? He just changed. And he was no longer, we were no longer a team. I think that's a good way to put it. And I, I realized after he was in a memory care that I had spent a lot of time second-guessing everything I said
1:33.2	and did because he would come back after I had done something or while I was, you know,
1:40.3	he would come back and correct me and tell me my, what I was doing was wrong or my ideas
1:46.0	were wrong. And so I had a lot of self-doubt at that point. And I just... So you thought he was just being,
1:55.7	I'm just trying to understand the juxtaposition of these two. Okay. Concepts you've given me.
2:01.4	So are you thinking now that his personality changed because his brain was already
2:07.0	changing or that he was just mean?
2:11.2	I think his brain was changing.
2:13.4	And I think he, I don't think he knew it at first.
2:16.4	I think he knew it sooner than I did.
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