Nursing home life with Alzheimer's disease

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Many of you know I live in a nursing home setting. It is a lot better than being at home, really. This is the second time I'm trying to enter a post. I wrote it all on the Mylot post page and promptly lost it and I could never find it again. Ok, nursing home life is OK. I spend most of my time in bed, though. The CNAs get me up, but I have to go back to bed within 3 to 4 hours. I stay busy on my tablet to keep my mind busy. I try to learn interesting science and biology things. Typing is a chore due to shaking tremors. I say "shaking" because my tremors are big. OK, prior to entering the nursing home, I had a history of getting lost when I was driving in town. For instance, one day I was out shopping with my daughter and when driving home, I was at the i was sure d. i dif ii would die intersection I needed to be in. Guess what! I did not recognize where I was. It was as if I had never been there before. I was at the light and I was in the left hand turn lane, like I was supposed to be, but I was panic stricken. The light was green but I could not move the car. My daughter was yelling at me to turn but, I couldn't do it. I was crying and I couldn't breath because my panic was so intense. Cars were child me and horns were blasting. My daughter screamed for me to turn and somehow I pulled myself together enough to make the left turn. I was still lost, but I listened to my daughter and her directions got us home. That is one time of getting lost. I have gotten lost while out walking. Moving on now, I broke my hip 3 years ago and I have been in a medical facility ever since. Life is pretty good. We have WIFI and a huge TV flat screen on the wall. I am more of a YouTube watcher than a TV watcher. I keep the TV on for my roommate. She doesn't communicate well, but she watches TV. She sometimes seems to pay attention to it. Anyway, I have trouble with short-term memory. I usually have no memory of the day before. I won't remember meals unless they are Italian meals like spaghetti or lasagna. There isn't much else I would remember, yet I know it is all usually tasty. Well, let's leave this discussion where it is. There is probably more, but I'm tired and this post is big. Photo is mine.