Guest guest Posted May 23, 2010 Report Share Posted May 23, 2010 hi joann,  so glad i can help i try, daddy would bring alot of things inot our world too and what was shared to me with some other caretivfers who were more exxperienced then me at the time was you cannot fight the hallucinations you hae to 'go ' iwth them . you have to try to let them leave. cach the snake and put it outside, be a commander and instruct the 'troops 'to go on their mission and to report back in 24 hours, etc. this way you are delaing with the hallucainatoins which to him is reality insetad of arguing and upsetting you adn him more. as we all know stress to an lbd'er is a sure thing for an epiesose to blow out of control. take carea nd more hugs. shaorn  ps i can only imagine how bad my typing is, as i am in full stress mode due to my health right now, so i am aksing ofr forigvenss and undeerstanding now hugs. sharon I am the daughter of Leonard whom was diagnosed in May 2004 and he died of complicatons *blood pressure started dropping and wouldn't recover* on Sept 25, 2005. He had bad case of Dr Jekyl/Mr Hyde scenarios. He was showing hallucinations and falling issues since prior to 1994. We moved in to take care of him Jan 19, 2003 and still live in his house. And in feb 2009, i have been diagonosed with 99% probability of lbd. Hoping that a cure or treatment will be found before it's too late for me. Subject: Thank you, Sharon To: LBDcaregivers Date: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 11:56 AM  Sometimes it is so confusing on this side of lewy body. Fred has the TV on most of the time. Now he is bringing it into our life. If he watches the military channel we have dead bodies and guns and even tanks in our house. If he watches animals we can get snakes or alligators. I have not understood this one at all and didn't know how to deal with it. Now that I know about the hearing it makes so much more sense and I'll quit trying to make him understand it is only TV.I think it will cause less frustration on both sides. There are so many confusing things, thank you so much for taking the time to help. You do! JoAnn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 23, 2010 Report Share Posted May 23, 2010 Hi JoAnn, When Don could no longer use the remote it was easy for me to set the TV on a clean romance story, Like Sara Plain and Tall, and it curbed his hallucinations a great deal. I hope you can get more control over the remote for both your sakes. Set a channel and then " Loose " the remote. Would that work? Love a lot, Imogene > > Sometimes it is so confusing on this side of lewy body. Fred has the TV on most of the time. Now he is bringing it into our life. If he watches the military channel we have dead bodies and guns and even tanks in our house. If he watches animals we can get snakes or alligators. I have not understood this one at all and didn't know how to deal with it. Now that I know about the hearing it makes so much more sense and I'll quit trying to make him understand it is only TV.I think it will cause less frustration on both sides. There are so many confusing things, thank you so much for taking the time to help. You do! JoAnn > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 24, 2010 Report Share Posted May 24, 2010 joanninklamath wrote: > Sometimes it is so confusing on this side of lewy body. > Fred has the TV on most of the time. Now he is bringing > it into our life. If he watches the military channel we > have dead bodies and guns and even tanks in our house. > If he watches animals we can get snakes or alligators. That's why we restrict Dad's TV watching to the Science Channel (and turn off the bug invasion programs) and old movies. He's frightened enough without bombs and animals eating animals. As a retired engineer, he seems to enjoy watching people building things. Best regards, Ann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 24, 2010 Report Share Posted May 24, 2010 hi,  we couldnt restrict daddys tv watching as eh would have fits if we took remote away from hinm h he couldnt program it, but he did now the up/down channel button and that was his fun changing channels adn often he stopped at channels we would prefer him not to but sometimes the fights were worse over the remote so i just let hinm watch what he wanted.  but i can understand why you do that, i wish we could have, but that was one battle we lsot no matter how we handled it.   hugs. sharon I am the daughter of Leonard whom was diagnosed in May 2004 and he died of complicatons *blood pressure started dropping and wouldn't recover* on Sept 25, 2005. He had bad case of Dr Jekyl/Mr Hyde scenarios. He was showing hallucinations and falling issues since prior to 1994. We moved in to take care of him Jan 19, 2003 and still live in his house. And in feb 2009, i have been diagonosed with 99% probability of lbd. Hoping that a cure or treatment will be found before it's too late for me. > Sometimes it is so confusing on this side of lewy body. > Fred has the TV on most of the time. Now he is bringing > it into our life. If he watches the military channel we > have dead bodies and guns and even tanks in our house. > If he watches animals we can get snakes or alligators. That's why we restrict Dad's TV watching to the Science Channel (and turn off the bug invasion programs) and old movies. He's frightened enough without bombs and animals eating animals. As a retired engineer, he seems to enjoy watching people building things. Best regards, Ann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 24, 2010 Report Share Posted May 24, 2010 Hi Ann, when we write we often leave out many small details that go into restricting our LO of something such as the TV. I know you were careful not to frustrate your Dad. I'm sure you had a method to do the restricting without the frustration. When Don naped, etc. I set the TV to a good channel and then hid the remote. (He loved to play with it, and got into some bad places, and like a child, couldn't get out of them.) When he started looking for the remote, I, too, did a search for a while and acted as if I couldn't find it. I looked in his chair, and under it, implying he lost it. Whatever worked to keep him away from the bad stuff on TV was peace for both of us. He didn't like the bad stuff, but had trouble finding a good station, and I couldn't be at his side every minute. We worked it out, as I know you did. Love a lot, Imogene > > Sometimes it is so confusing on this side of lewy body. > > Fred has the TV on most of the time. Now he is bringing > > it into our life. If he watches the military channel we > > have dead bodies and guns and even tanks in our house. > > If he watches animals we can get snakes or alligators. > > That's why we restrict Dad's TV watching to the Science > Channel (and turn off the bug invasion programs) and old > movies. He's frightened enough without bombs and animals > eating animals. As a retired engineer, he seems to enjoy > watching people building things. > > Best regards, > > > Ann > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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