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My wife of fifty years wont be coming home

My partner has had a progressive dementia for some years now, and it isnt the vacant eyes, smiling at everything type. Its the nasty Scottish Glasgow fishwife, who flies off the handle at nothing type. Until now I have managed her, with a little help from my long suffering daughter (Why is it a mother always dotes on the son, when the daughter puts in all the effort?)
Anyway. My wife had to enter hospital for surgery on a hernia she has had for a long time, but ignored. And the successful surgery meant a stay in hospital that has exposed the worst in her, which we have been covering. Full details will not be given here. But she is being "managed" until she is healed enough to be transfered to a home with secure dementia care. I can no longer look after and be safe myself..
And the most horrible part of this is the relief I feel..Its a really $h*tty way for a wonderful partnership to end..😞
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Prison1203 · 61-69, M
I’m so sorry to hear that , dementia is a horrible disease, luckily my aunt had the smile at everything type and lived many years with it but sadly had to be in an assisted living place where they gave her a lot of help and she stayed in her little apartment like room on her own, but they would check on her during the day at all times and would take her to dinner and all meals where she could actually remember to feed herself which I was very grateful for that she never lost the ability to do things for herself until her death at 96 from natural causes