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    The Other Woman Is Ad: A Behavior Log on an Alzheimer's Patient, My Husband
    The Other Woman Is Ad: A Behavior Log on an Alzheimer's Patient, My Husband
    The Other Woman Is Ad: A Behavior Log on an Alzheimer's Patient, My Husband
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    The Other Woman Is Ad: A Behavior Log on an Alzheimer's Patient, My Husband

    By Emma Reed

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    Are you a caregiver? Do you see a person behaving in a strange manner? Do you know where to start? This book will be a help to you. What this writer learned will give you a good beginning, that will lead you to some helpful resources.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 24, 2011
    ISBN9781456722135
    The Other Woman Is Ad: A Behavior Log on an Alzheimer's Patient, My Husband

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      The Other Woman Is Ad - Emma Reed

      © 2011 Emma Reed. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 2/22/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-2212-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-2213-5 (e)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any Web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      INTRODUCTION

      This log was commenced by the writer to help her cope with the various changes that were occurring in her husband. Changes that she did not know how cope with. She reached out for sources, people, and the internet. All the information is true, and as she moved through each day, she learned. She learned that the caregiver needs help. Visitors are good, but they need to offer help to the caregiver so that he/she can take breaks. Breaks are needed for refueling the body. Breaks are needed so that the caregiver will not get sick. It is hoped that all readers will learn how to help families with Alzheimer’s patients.

      DEDICATION

      This log is dedicated to each person named in the pages of this log

      Special thanks to the typist, Juanita S. Richardson.

      Special thanks to the proofreaders Ramona M. Hill and Zella D. Jackson.

      Special thanks to Herbert E. Mannie Pair III for graphics and the Closed Book.

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      The pages have helped the writer, EMMA MAE LOVE WILLIS REED, to move through some therapeutic sessions on her own, without the help of her psychiatrist, Joseph Thomas, M.D.

      Writing what has been happening during the last four years of our married life may help family members, friends, and acquaintances to discern what can happen to our love ones; how one can help the caregiver, how to recognize the behavioral changes; how not to be a nay sayer, and most of all what the caregiver needs. All Alzheimer patients are not the same. There are similar behaviors that are the same. Some behaviors can make us sad, and some will bring us laughter. Laughter is good for some of us who need laughter in our lives. While there are some similar behaviors from patient to patient, Alzheimer patients vary from patient to patient, based on my listening to people in the various meetings that I have attended.

      The other woman is AD in this instance. Other women can tear up a home, and they can really take over a person’s life. There is no known cure for this woman, one who has been there, still there and still doing it. The other woman appears in my dreams. She says that my husband belongs to her and she never fails to get her man. That I refuse to let anyone drive me to hate is a reality in my life. Please tell me how I can love this other woman.

      My mind flashes back to the year of 2003. Simmie is cleaning the same top dresser drawer every day. He makes sure that his clothes are arranged a certain way in his closet. Many days all his clothes would be removed from his closet and placed on our bed. I would see him balancing his check book. Our utility bills were not being paid. We were receiving past due notices telling us that our bills were past due. He began losing rent checks. One tenant’s checks were lost for two months in a row. I concluded that we should take checks to the bank as soon as we received them. This family member never saw that something was wrong.

      Looking back, Little Simmie caught pure abuse from his daddy. There is the front door lock that had to be replaced because he thought that he stole the key. He was accused of stealing his yellow rain gear, all of his tools, and said he caught him touching me on my posterior end, as I washed dishes. He accused me of leaving Little Simmie in bed wet when he was a baby. I found this strange, because I didn’t know him when his son was a baby. Could he possibly have me mixed up with some else?

      Contents

      CHAPTER 1 AD Lingers in the Shadows

      CHAPTER 2 AD Shows Up for His Birthday

      CHAPTER 3 AD Stresses Out the Caregiver

      CHAPTER 4 AD Reveals He Seductive Lifestyle

      CHAPTER 5 "AD Forces Me to Get Professional Help

      CHAPTER 6 AD Controls His Every Waking Moments

      ABOUT THE WRITER

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      The other woman came out in full force after we came back from a Caribbean Cruise for seven days. Prior to our cruise, I had observed some strange behaviors such as cleaning out the same drawer every day taking out things and putting them back in the same drawer every day. I told him on several occasions that you clean that drawer everyday, honey. He said, I keep messing this drawer up. He was constantly losing things and accusing me of taking them. I shook these accusations off and tried to place this on his being super neat and forgetful.

      The cruise on the Carnival Conquest was fabulous. Simmie had never been on a cruise, even though he had worked as a chief cook for more than thirty years on ships that made voyages. He had always worked for others, but had never had others to wait on him hand and foot. There were 3,600 passengers and 126 crew members. A number of the crew members looked just like us but we knew when they spoke that they were from another country. Many were asked, Where are you from? We

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