Feeling stressed, just looking to see if anyone wants to chat this morning, well, almost noon here in MI!
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Hi I love chatting in the mornings ! <y most quiet time.

Hi I'm cjs. I am usually on line around 4:30-5:00 in the afternoon. I sometimes loose track of time and find it is 11:00 or 12:00 at night and I am still on line. I would love to hear from some of you. I was just told of my ad.this tuesday). I have known something was wrong for about 2&1/2 years or more, but it wasen't till my husband died last Aug. that things started to go way bad. I gave away my favorite plants and left the others die. I stoped going anywhere. I just wanted to be alone, but I cryed because I was so lonely. The Dr put me on namenda 10 MG twice a day for memory loss. I wear two hearing aids, and have lost the same one for the second time now. I cant remember what day it is and my appointments. I forget to make phone calls that I promised to make, I loose my glasses earrings, I lost my mothers ring and it broke my heart. I miss place all kind of things so far I haven't gotten lost. My sister told me today that she would stand by me until she found out that I was runing around outside naked. I hope it dosen't come to that. The Dr. would not let me drive for about 2 months till he felt I could manage it. I am resticted to just driving to the two sons that live about 15 miles away from me, and just around to the stors within a 5 mile area. No night driving. I thought I would die not being able to drive, but I learned to take a taxie or the local bus or the Senior bus. That was when the Dr. said if I could take care of that much I could drive again. I am thinking much clear since he started me on this med. I am also taking 30 mg down from 60 mg of cymbalta for depression and alprazolam 0.25mg one half a tablet at night cut back from a full tablet and am alowed to take a full tablet as needed if I have a really bad day. Some days I just can't stop crying and that is when I take the alprazolam. I have one child that just won't except what the Dr. says. His wife is a nurse and they think they are Dr"s.. Please excuse my spelling. I am happy and know that God is incharge of all things and I am trying not to borrow things from tomorrow because I don't know what it holds. God knows the beginning to the end of my life and I will not ? Him. I know I cannot wait till He calls me home. I am ready this min. I hope He comes befor I die. I am 68 years old. I just found you all last night when I started to check on what this ad(I will not put caps on those two letters because they don't desirve caps) is all about and I found this blog. I thank God for it and hope someone has some sugestions for me. Love to you all cjs

Hello, cjs, and welcome to the message boards. Getting such news as you have is always difficult. I'm glad you came here to find help.

This message board is divided into different forums, or discussion areas. The one you have posted in is for people wanting to chat, a whole separate part of the website. Not many people come here.

I hope you don't mind, but I am going to cut and paste your message into the forum called "I Have Alzheimer's." When you first log into the message boards, you will see a whole list of forums --I think that is the second one down.

There you will find many people who have been just where you are, and I know they will have much support, encouragement and advice for you!

Please come back often and tell us how you are. We care!

Hello, my name is Celeste and my mother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's back in March. I know that this forum isn't used a lot so can you tell me where I can go to chat or email? I did notice most activity is between 7-10 in the evening. I can do that. I'm feeling very stressed and need to understand more of others experiences with this horrible disease. I have my mother living with me after I was told by her neighbors that she was wondering the streets in her neighborhood at 12:30 a.m. She lived 45-50 minutes away, I work fulltime(now on FMLA)so I decided to move her in with me. It is a constant "I miss my house - I want to go home". The mornings are becoming unbearable; everything seems to affect her more so at that time. Just need to talk and see how others handle certain aspects of this disease...need much support. My mother had always been an extremely negative and overly worrisome person; now it is 100x worse. She can become nasty and irritable and a look in her eye that is "just not right". I appreciate anyone's help and support. Thanks! Celeste

Celeste, the great thing about the message boards is that you can post whenever you want and people will post replies -- often sooner than you might think.

To get to the chat rooms, click on the link at the top of this big box that says Chat Rooms. There are usually not many people (if any) during the day because most of us are working or caring for our LO. (I will go hang out in there for a few minutes now, in case you are still online.)

There are also scheduled chats -- one is today at 3 pm Eastern time. There's another every Thursday at 1 pm. So you know for sure someone will be there then.

cjs, your post caught my eye because my last name is honey! My dad has dementia and I sometimes need the support from this site.