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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Alzheimer's / April 2006Just getting started
I'm just getting started down this path. Husband was diagnosed with possible dementia. We are now waiting for the University of Florida to call because we want to have more in depth testing to try for a more definitive diagnosis. My thinking is that he may have more lewey body type but probably an overlap. One thing about our situation is that he just recovered from shingles in his left eye and it left scarring. Therefore he is not inclined to drive and has been letting me do almost all the driving. I hate it about the shingles but it does get him out of the car easier and he can use it for an excuse for not driving. Monday, I hope the scaring will heal and go away completely. I had a very bad herpes infection in my right eye which left scarring for a while, but after about 6 months all the scarring had disappeared. Pray his will work out the same way. Gwen > I'm just getting started down this path. Husband was diagnosed with > possible dementia. We are now waiting for the University of Florida to [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I hate it about the shingles but it does get him out of the car easier and > he can use it for an excuse for not driving. What the scaring does is cause him to see too many lights at night or distorts things when raining...stuff like that. He wears sunglasses during the day and doesn't seem to have any trouble with driving then. However he has become content with me doing the driving which I guess is a good thing. He might be more in agreement with giving it up entirely when the time comes. I have read on here and other places about how hard it is when the license has to go and am thinking that maybe I was given a blessing in disguise. > Monday, I hope the scaring will heal and go away completely. I had a very > bad herpes infection in my right eye which left scarring for a while, but [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > I hate it about the shingles but it does get him out of the car easier and > > he can use it for an excuse for not driving. > However he > has become content with me doing the driving which I guess is a good thing. > He might be more in agreement with giving it up entirely when the time > comes. I have read on here and other places about how hard it is when the > license has to go and am thinking that maybe I was given a blessing in > disguise. you really are fortunate! please take advantage of it and urge him to replace his license with a state ID card as soon as you can. if he's been diagnosed, he really should not be driving, and he may be one of the folks that is willing to let go of it. not everyone is so lucky, and stopping (usually men) from driving is a real independence issue. one of the unfortunate things is that folks with dementias have no insight into their problem --- and it's always someone else who is hiding or stealing things. >you really are fortunate! please take advantage of it and urge >him to replace his license with a state ID card as soon as you >can. What's the effect (for those of us not in the USA?) >if he's been diagnosed, he really should not be driving, and he >may be one of the folks that is willing to let go of it. not [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >no insight into their problem --- and it's always someone else >who is hiding or stealing things. Hey, I haven't had that yet! Sounds like fun :-p anthony shipley Run away with me; I can make you unhappy. >>you really are fortunate! please take advantage of it and urge >>him to replace his license with a state ID card as soon as you [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Run away with me; I can make you unhappy. Anthony, my MIL insisted that the reason her house was a mess and she couldn't find things was because people were breaking into her house at night when she was asleep and rearranging things. My Mom told me (tongue in cheek) that those same people must be visiting her house too. :-) Karen >>>you really are fortunate! please take advantage of it and urge >>>him to replace his license with a state ID card as soon as you [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Karen LOL. I have an aunt with the same problem..the next door neighbours break in and steal her teaspoons (nothing else, just teaspoons),and also dont steal, but simply re-arrange, her meds :-)  SignatureTumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com >>you really are fortunate! please take advantage of it and urge >>him to replace his license with a state ID card as soon as you >>can. > What's the effect (for those of us not in the USA?) Anthony, In the U.S., a driver's license has the driver's photo on it and is often used for personal identification. If you go to a bank or some other place where you need to prove who you are, a driver's license is universally acceptable proof. So if Monday's husband gives up his driver's license, he needs to get some other kind of photo ID. Alan Let me explain further -- in the U.S., you need a driver's license or other photo ID to cash a check, to get a cell phone, and perhaps even to get the doctor's office to file your insurance. (Around here they say they need it to make sure you are that person so they are not filing a fraudulent claim.) In this state, you can use it to vote and some polls want it as well as a voter registration card. Want to play billiards? To get the balls, you have to surrender your driver's license in most taverns as security for their return. And yet the libertarians go ballistic if anyone mentions a national ID card or a national driver's licensing program.... We just have state ones instead! (With attendant increased opportunities for fraud, ignorance, underfunding, etc.) Don't mind me ... just a little cranky today.... Songbird I think the idea is that 50 states doing it differently means some will get it right and some wrong. Everyone hopes they live in the _upper_ percentile. Reminds me of a quote about men... Every man that has watched the Andy Griffith Show hopes he looks like Andy but is secretly afraid he really looks like Barney. :-) Karen ---snip--- > And yet the libertarians go ballistic if anyone mentions a national ID > card or a national driver's licensing program.... We just have state [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Songbird I had a brief dose of shingles many years ago -- you're best served if you can avoid it. Not life threatening, by any means, but not the nicest way to wake up. anthony shipley Run away with me; I can make you unhappy. And having them on the face and going into the eye is not fun. My husband battled it for about a solid year and the Doctors are happy his eye was saved from going blind. As it turned out he ended up with 20/40 vision in that eye with correction and some scaring. His other eye is 20/20 with correction. > I had a brief dose of shingles many years ago -- you're best served if you can > avoid it. Not life threatening, by any means, but not the nicest way to wake up. > > anthony shipley > > Run away with me; I can make you unhappy. |
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