Living with Alzheimer's Disease

I am the care giver for my wife. We have been married 59 and a half years. on August 19 2009 we will have been married 60 years. WE married right out of high school age seventeen, and nineteen. Wife studied and became a nurse. Worked at it, but it was not forfilling as she thought So she later studied and became a federal library technician. She put 30 years between the two jobs. 25 as a library technician, setting and implementing procedurce. Cataloging, papers, books swibble notes, she developed alzheimer approximate December 5 2005.

There are seven stages to this decease and my wife is in the fifth stage, the medication she is taking is deffinently slowing down the brain mask progression(the flax material). But the eyes are mostly closed now and sometimes she is in the first and third stages of REM sleeping. Watching the rapid eyes movement, listening, to the breathing, and body movements, and sometimes noise (fear,joy, happiness), says she has a lot of brain wave activity. So I feed it the next day with physical and eye contact exercise. This feed more oxygen and electronic brain waves to the cells.

My idea is to keep the brain cell as busy as possible. The medication slows the progreesion, I hope I can build a wall of immunity to help the medication. Eating the right nutritional foods, and Eye and Physical exercise are key in my fight against this decease. Physical exercise gives oxygen to the brain, the right foods helps the neutron to fire between themselves. Its not much,but my baby is still with me. She keeps her eyes closed a lot now and I know when she is not asleep.

I thought there was a problem with her sight so I took her to the eye doctor. She has a cateract in her right eye, and was scheduled for surgery, I had to cancel it because of other problem. she was having problem with her stomach. That has been taken care of,so I will reschedule the surgery. Seventy to eighty percent of the info the brain processes comes through the eyes.

There is so much more I could write about my wifes condition and what I am trying to do to keep this hideous assault from getting to the next stage. We dance, walk, play (almost like little children),talk about any and everything. My wife is 80 years old and I am 78 years old all of our memories together has been wiped out but we are making new ones together, she does remember, but only when we are in the park or approaching the neighborhood in the garage or in the house. She still has a desire to eat and feeds herself most things especially her chicken and ice cream, and knows when she has had enough.