Kate and I spent a little time in the pool Friday night and had a brief conversation about her adjustment. She indicated some frustration with her inability to handle things. I told her I thought she was handling things well. She agreed, but she said she thought part of what was happening was denial. She went on to explain that she accepted the situation intellectually but emotionally she hadn’t fully accepted it. I also commented on her sense of humor regarding her forgetfulness.
Yesterday morning she told me that she had made two other mistakes. One of these involved her giving a date of June instead of July in an email to a member of PEO. Another was to have left one of her Library Ladies off the email list for her communication regarding the lunch she is trying to arrange for them. Neither of these represents anything of consequence. In context of all the other little things that are happening, they do represent further reminders that her brain is not functioning the way it should.
During a conversation at dinner last night, we talked about aging and said something about 80. She said, “By the time you are 80, I will be –” (here she did not say anything, she simply drooped her head the way she might do at a later stage of her AD). We made a few comments and then she started to tear up and suggested we change the topic.
