Coping with Dementia Relative
As I came downstairs I saw the water everywhere and I quite honestly could of cried. I had to wade ankle deep to the bathroom to turn the hot tap off then try and uplift what carpet I could and try to prevent the water going any further and causing more damage. I draged carpet up ripping it at the joins as it was to heavy for me to drag outside . Every towel I owned was thrown down to try and soak up as much water as I could and prevent more rooms being flooded. I managed to prevent the water from getting into the cupboard where I had many large rolls of material for my work.
The insurance company was called and they arrived with large fans and all others sorts of paraphenalia to dry out the floors and walls and uplift what carpet I hadn’t managed to get up. We had holes in the walls everywhere with hoses running from the fans to dry inside the walls. This took over a week with very noisy fans running 24hrs then the insurance accessor was able to sort out what had to happen next. We had to have a new floor as the hot water had soaked very fast into the type of floor we had , new carpet, lino and paintwork.
The builders arrived to put in the new floor and I had June set up with all her stuff upstairs so they could be left in peace. The builders were rendered speechless when June decided she needed to go back to her room and climbed across the floor joyce as they had already removed the damaged floor. It was a bit of a mission getting her back out of her room .
Health in Dementia
One of the upsides of looking after her was knowing she had 3 meals a day and the blood tests the doctor had ordered showed she needed to come off all her medication which was diet related. As was typical of dementia she had a fridge full of food but was obviously forgetting to eat. For someone who is in her nineties the only medication she needed was her eye drops . She has the constitution of an ox with her blood pressure being that of some one in her 40′s and a really strong heart beat. If it wasn’t for the dementia she would still be living on her own , doing her own thing and living a pretty healthy life.
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Author: Brenda Baker, Media Marketing & Publishing, Co-Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.
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