3 or panties pads and depends but is not incontinent. Stage Alz is moderate severe stage 6. Wants to go 24/7 but won't associate with the other residents. She is challenged with the phone as well but it's phone not her she picks at her back and has sores we put meds on but she will go scrub it off because it will get on her clothes but won't let it dry as we ask She is insistent she can get her own place and get a car so she can run around sleeps in straight back chair will NOT sleep in the bed.
I don't know if this analogy helps but, it sure did make the "light bulb" go on in our heads and explain alot! Best wishes on your journey.
I don't know what stage she's at now, but she's skin and bone, eats next to nothing and is pretty much bed ridden. As she's so very weak the tantrums have recently stopped. When I visited yesterday she looked like she was coming to the end of her time. We've never been close, not even friends really, and I don't know what I feel ... just sort of going day to day in a vacuum/no mans land waiting for the other shoe to drop.
My eldest cat is 16+. I've been nursing him along for some time. He's in no pain but he can't go any further so this afternoon he will slip quietly across the Rainbow Bridge. Sometimes I think we're kinder to animals than we are to people.
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