Praying for you JanieceStewart. Yes, caregivers are under 24/7 stress and of course their health will suffer. I think it was brother LancelotDavies (MyAlzTeam) whom himself has the disease whom wrote to me once that I've got to take care of myself. Lancelot wrote that the disease makes a sufferer 'selfish', only caring about their own needs as the disease takes hold. God bless him...I've followed his advice since then.

Caregivers seem to put their own
health on a back burner while attending to unpredictable events and life crisis of their care recipients - its like fire alarms 1 2 3 4 5 alarm - caregiver is figuring and often operating on smart reading the situation or guessing by experience. - will things stay quiet and calm for a few minutes or a few days and which alarm is going to go off next ... its a perfect storm for ongoing exhaustion and permanent caregiver health inpairments and mental and emotional fatigue!

I am reading all of the health problems we are all having. It is what it is. Off this topic, I had haircut yest. The girl cutting my hair said she used to work at Alz. Care center really close to where we live. My son had visited it a few months ago. 3 of our grands worked there while going to school. She recommended it even though she doesn't work there any more. We were talking for a while. Felt so good to talk with her. She was giving suggestions and told me even though she recommends it to tour a few other places. Also told me to write a book, don't know about that, but show photos etc.... Said get the 16 oz. water or coke bottles. Put food coloring in if I want and put sparkles or something that rattles. Said this gives them something to do with their hands. Maybe I would have thought about the activities on my own, or maybe not but this was so helpful. I think I was meant to go there to her yest.

Thank you all. We all trying to take care of our spouse,parents family members, but all comes to our stress everyday. Everything is about the illness controlling our love ones and us the caregivers. I'm so happy that I am with you guys if not I don't know what else to do. Thank you. I hope one day we can meet.

I learned from my time as a Caregiver, that stress from Caregiving can cause or bring about all of those illnesses and conditions. That is why you are told to get help. Keeping on without help will kill you.