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A story song written for those who have a loved one suffering from memory loss, Alzheimers, or Dementia. My hope is that my song will make a difference in your life and the life of your loved one! The story in this song was “God inspired” and carries an important message at the end, a message we all need to hear. If my song/video has special meaning for you or might benefit someone you know, please feel free to post the YouTube link into your social network account or forward the Youtube link along! Last but not least, I would love to hear from you! It may take a day or two for me to post comments because I have my channel set up to review comments first to avoid spam. I hope you be blessed by the words and music of my song. Libby “Love Them While They’re With You” Words and Music by: Libby L. Allen, Copyright 2011 To hear additional songs that I have written, visit my official songsite at www.libbyallensongs.com

I am doing a paper on Alzheimer’s disease right now and it seems it is caused by protein build-ups in the brain. I weight-lift and take in a lot of protein because of it. My grandmother who had Alzheimer’s obviously did not and probably had a low protein intake so I am wondering if a high protein diet is what leads to Alzheimer’s. Does anyone know for certain if high protein diets can lead to it later in life?

If not, what is the cause? Will reading and keeping your mind active prevent such a disease? Thank’s…

For the last 2 1/2 years I have taken care of (read: shopped for, cleaned house, paid bills, yardwork, laundry, etc…) my elderly grandmother. While it was enjoyable (and at times very difficult) I looked forward to a day when I could take a break from it. As the situation grew more severe, the stress level went through the roof.

About a month ago, a relative who needed housing moved in with my grandmother, and took over a considerable amount of her day to day caregiving. While I still see her everyday, and still take care of several responsibilities, I am no longer dealing with as much as I used to. Ironic thing is….l miss it. I don’t feel quite right without the headaches. Sound weird? Has anyone else experienced this, and how severe can this feeling get?

I’m 27 and I help take care of my grandmother. She is almost 82 and has had a stroke and possibly has Alzheimers. Now she is getting better and back to her old self. But she thinks she can go back to doing everything she used to. The doctor and her visiting nurse don’t advise her being alone and that she uses extreme caution when doing things. She refuses to take this advice. We want her to be safe. Now I think her feelings are hurt. I’m very frustrated and can’t handle being here anymore. I feel bad leaving so I stay. My patience is completely gone. Thats how bad it is. What do I do? I need to get out on my own and can’t. HELP

Hi let me explain my situation first…I take care of my grandmother and home(she has alzheimers) So I’m unable to go to a gym or leave my home for a long period of time. I also don’t have the cash to get something along the lines of a treadmill. I’m wanting to lose some weight, what are some good ways to do so at home, that’ll give me results? I want to trim up my tummy and legs. Thanks! =)

My grandmother was diagnosed with mild schizophrenia a LONG time ago, but now they’re saying she’s showing early signs of alzheimer’s even though she had the same memory problems when they diagnosed her as schizophrenic! (which she shows NO sign of….just an extreme mental disorder from a mental breakdown which happened because of family issues. How can the doctors be sure this is alzheimers?? I’m worried….

my grandmother is suffering from dementia for the last 2 years. Doctor says she is in the final stage of dementia. It is really heart breaking to see how she is crying with pain.. we cant identify the pain also. We have tried the pain killers up to the maximum tolerable dosage. She is a very lean person that she cant tolerate high dosage of pain killers or sedatives. Please help me… I cant see this…

The entire family is against it and we’re trying to be nice for the holidays… but she’s taking care of my grandmother who has alzheimers, but my mother is 30 mins in her room online, then 5 mins checking on my grandmother, back and forth all day. She says she’s tired, but it’s because she’s online all night talking to the ***hole instead of working things out w her fiance…. what should we do?
She’s 47.
She’s been married 3 times, and has relationships that last about 4-5 yrs.. so she’s had about 9 men, that I know of. but the last guy was the only NORMAL one.

I dropped outta highschool at age 17 to ake care of my grandmother who has Alzheimers disease. I live with my mother and my grandmother. Im 18 now and Ive thrown my life out the door to help take care of my grandmother with my mom. Its been a year now and I havent even been able to leave the house because someone has to always be here. Neither my Mom or Grandmother show appreciation for me doing this. I want to get my GED and go to Community college. I pisses me off that Ive not talked to any of my friends not be able to be a kid my for the last year and I get n o appreciation for anything please give me some advice Im really starting to get depressed.

So here is the scoop, my fiance and I live with his grandparents to help take care of them. He grandmother has Alzheimers.His mother moved back from New Hampshire a couple years ago to help out. (We’re in CA).

When she moved out here, she decided to see the same psychiatrist that my fiance sees. He has ADD and takes Adderall for it. The Dr. put her on the same meds. At first things were OK, put then it seems that her mental state has really been debatable. It has really gotten a lot worse in the past couple weeks. Let me run down some things she has done in the couple weeks,

1. She has started either talking or humming to herself constantly.
2. She has been accusing her son of stealing her car keys to take gas from her car and hiding her kitchen tools.
3. Accusing me of clogging up the toilets and that anything I leave in the house (like a bag) collects dust to worsen the grandpa’s COPD.
4. She sometimes doesn’t sleep at all (maybe a few hours)
5. She sometimes sleeps all day
6. She recently kicked out her husband (end of last year), then now called him over, called him a piece of s**t and asked for him to move back in, after saying she wants a divorce and never wants to see him again (all in the same breath)
7. She thinks some rooms in the house smell like rotten meat.
8. She is blaming me right now for everything wrong in the house.
9. When she is talking her to herself, it varies from talking to another person, from highs to lows, to the dog (we actually have a dog, so not that bad), to just mumbling to herself.

I do believe it has a lot to do with the Adderall she is taking, and I do believe she is taking more than the recommended dose because she always runs out before her next prescription is written. But the scary part is that she has been out of pills for a few days now and her symptoms have not gone away.

Before a few weeks ago, she was still passable for sane, even though she was accusing her husband of taking money out of her bank account to make it over drawn. (he doesn’t even have access to that account, it’s hers)

My fiance believes that the smell part is a big deal. She has been on about smells for a while.
1. She couldn’t sleep next to her husband because he smelled too much.
2. She smells an intense cigarette smoke in my fiance’s car.
3. She smells rotten meat in the living room.
4. She has been putting a bad smelling incense around the house to "clean" the house
5. She used to sleep with the dog every night and now doesn’t because it smells too bad.

And I’m sure it related but she has been cleaning far more than usual. She spent 5 hours cleaning a room that was perfectly clean. She also has been making it look like no one lives here. For examples, the bathroom used to have air cleaners, a plant, shampoos, soap, etc and now it looks like a hotel bathroom with nothing in it.

I guess what I’m trying to get at is that she has been exhibiting some really unreasonable behavior and doesn’t see how anything is wrong except for everyone else. I can go on forever listing things, but really we just don’t know what to do. We have tried talking to her Dr. and letting him know everything that has been going on. His response was "I’ll do some looking around." What does that even mean? We are at out wits end. Please, anyone with some advice out there as to what could be wrong or what we can do to fix it?