I get lots of advice to seek help with all of this, and guess what? I do get help! I recognized early on that trying to do this all by myself was a surefire recipe for rapid burnout, so when I had offers of help, I accepted them. Caring for Heather is not a burden; Read More
Tag: dementia incontinence
Code Brown mornings – how a quiet morning can unexpectedly change to full throttle caregiving
Oh, how I cherish those mornings when I can quietly slip downstairs, savour a cup of coffee, and catch up on my iPad in peace. This morning started just like that, a blissful 45 minutes of solitude and relaxation. But then, I heard the familiar sound of footsteps on the floorboards. Heather was up, wandering Read More
Incontinence
It looks like early days of incontenence in the house… Heather has peed herself a few times over the past months, almost always just from being out of the house and away from the bathroom. So it wasn’t a loss of bladder control, it was the inability to plan and strategize, despite me and others Read More
