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Just read the reply above mine. Don't know who you are Anon, but no, you are not a whinger.

You have my sympathy and my love (not that it will be much help unfortunately)

Anon and lost I have the perfect place for you to get all the support you need.........my mum has alzheimers too.

This is my lifeline at times, more so as her AZ has gone to the late stages.

www.alzheimers.org.uk/TalkingPoint/Discuss/forumdisplay.php?f=2

copy and paste it into your search engine.

Registration is free.

Pm me anytime, I truly do understand what you are going through.

xx

Thank you
A special thank you to Kitty for the website I am going to look now! I am so sorry to know that your mum has alzheimers too. It is a dreadful illness. I was feeling really low when I posted that (at my wits end) but we live to fight another day!.
Hope you are coping. Hugs
C

Yes, some days are just so hard, but you will get through it. Mum has no idea who we are and is now in residential care, but she is still my mum.

I love her to bits and nothing will ever change that......not even alzheimers.

That site has moderators and if you look at the factsheets it has masses of help and information to help all of you.

Good luck and I mean it if you ever need a shoulder, then pm me.

Only another relative of a sufferer can truly understand in my opinion anyway.

xx

today is the anniversay of my MiL death and wish both my inlaws were still around.

My mum and dad are still here and can see so many changes in them and dad is getting soo much like my nan I have warned him battling with one stubborn person in the famil is enough so he had better get back to normal.

Am meant to be seeing my nan on Saturday and havnt seen her for 4 years so no doubt will see a change which will be a shock

Dad died in 1994 age 67, Mum 2003 age 68....it's no age, and I wasn't ready (not that I would ever have been)...I am 48 and sometimes feel like a small lost child. November my bro died aged 49 (MS)...My sis also is poorly with her MS.....life is sometimes very cruel.

TJ

My father died this day in 1999 - my mother now in wonderful res.care home as she didn't recover from all the years she spent looking after him. I agree life is very cruel but all we can do is try and be strong.

well after reading through all the recent replys I guess I am lucky that my mum still has all her facultys.It is just her joint movements that are affected. But it is hard seeing her like that when she has always been so mobile especially when I was growing up she would take us cycling and join in playing rounders etc. And even played on the beach with my own kids.
I have been going around and around trying to get some sort of help for her. I finally got in touch with somebody, not sure which agency they are from but they are going to visit and assess her needs but it will take about 6 weeks before that. They should be able to provide a grant so that she can have a step in bath and handrail and other things to help her get around a bit better at home.
and as you say when you work and have a family and dog that needs walking it all takes time. Not much time left to look after yourself.
I am taking her to get her ears syringed today as since she moved I have been having to write things down or shout at her. She has finally got registered with a doctor. That took more than 3 weeks to sort out.

i never got to see my parents grow old found my dad dying when i was just 14yrs he died in 1954 age 57 and my mum died in 1975 she was 67 and i sat by her bed while she was dying of cancer, three weeks later she died and it was very lonely as im only child
joyce from hollandx