Today my Husband and I are celebrating our three year wedding anniversary. After talking with Dad, he has informed us that we’re wrong and it’s our five year wedding anniversary. At first I was trying to correct him but there was no reasoning with him. I just went with it and said yeah, married three and engaged for over two years so it’s around 5 years. I then segued into talking about the wedding and how much fun we all had and the various memories from the day.
Lately we’ve all been noticing Dad is having difficulty with processing time, events and dates. He’s having trouble remembering people’s specific ages, anniversary years, special dates, etc. Or, if something like a baseball game is supposed to be on TV but then gets rained out, he gets so upset and thinks we’re being mean and we’re keeping him from watching the game. He doesn’t understand that there’s no game on or there’s a few days break between the start of the World Series, or, they don’t always show the New England Patriot games on the West Coast. If he’s expecting it to be on the tele and it’s not, all hell breaks loose.
We’ve decided it’s best to write down events and important dates on the calendar so he can check it out for himself. It works sometimes and other times it doesn’t. If he has it in his head that something is supposed to happen and it does not, he gets angry regardless of what anyone or the calendar says. And, he still doesn’t believe the calendar when it says, ‘Husband’s 31st birthday’. He knows it’s Husband’s birthday but we’re wrong again, he’s only 29. In all, it’s one of those things where you pick your battles and you just go with it. Who doesn’t want to be 29, again!
Lewy Body Dementia 