All I can tell you is that I KNOW what you are going through. I married my husband 24 years ago-he was my high school sweetheart. I knew he was a diabetic but I had no idea about this. In 1999, he had "the widow maker" heart-attack and somehow he survived. It shut down his kidneys. To make a long story short-since then he has had a kidney transplant which failed 6 yr later and he's now on dialsys 3x a week, he has lost both his legs, had multiple heart attacks, strokes, seizures, chronic pain, vascular dimensia,congestive heart failure and COPD etc. He is now a brittle diabetic and insulin resistant, (terrible mood swings), forgetful, mean and lays in his bed all day. I feel like I live in total Isolation. I might as well live in a cave. But when I married him I swore "till death do us part. I don't know how but my advice is to muster all your stregnth and walk through it with him. You'll thank yourself in the end. I am going to start going to a caregiver support group-maybe that is an option. But if you leave-you'll end up hating yourself. If you want to e-mail me my e-mail is [email protected]'re more than welcome to.
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All I can tell you is that I KNOW what you are going through. I married my husband 24 years ago-he was my high school sweetheart. I knew he was a diabetic but I had no idea about this. In 1999, he had "the widow maker" heart-attack and somehow he survived. It shut down his kidneys. To make a long story short-since then he has had a kidney transplant which failed 6 yr later and he's now on dialsys 3x a week, he has lost both his legs, had multiple heart attacks, strokes, seizures, chronic pain, vascular dimensia,congestive heart failure and COPD etc. He is now a brittle diabetic and insulin resistant, (terrible mood swings), forgetful, mean and lays in his bed all day. I feel like I live in total Isolation. I might as well live in a cave. But when I married him I swore "till death do us part. I don't know how but my advice is to muster all your stregnth and walk through it with him. You'll thank yourself in the end. I am going to start going to a caregiver support group-maybe that is an option. But if you leave-you'll end up hating yourself. If you want to e-mail me my e-mail is [email protected]'re more than welcome to.
January 17, 2010 - 11:19pmThis Comment
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