God bless you and your wife.
It is wonderful of you to keep her at home.
I kept my husband at home for four years.
I had help from a grandson who lived with us and hired caregivers three nights a week, so we could get some sleep.
He was a sundowner, which means he was awake and active from sundown to sunup.He had to be watched constantly. He would try to escape and wrestle with the ladies. He would steal all their snacks and drinks from their carry- alls. He would lie down on the couch and put his feet on their lap so they couldn’t get up. Many a night the caregiver would have to wake me up at 3 a.m. just to settle him down.
He would turn the stove on, all burners, and stand there watching them turn red. After that, we turned off the stove at the fusebox every evening. We had to hide the microwave and the toaster oven.
One night, he found the meat cleaver and took it out to cut up cereal and soda boxes! Every knife, scissors, and sharp object was then kept under lock and key.
He flooded the bathroom so bad, the water got down into the basement.
Yes, we finally had to put him in the Care Home. To keep him safe and keep me sane.
Once again, God bless you for keeping your wife at home.
One night, he found the meat cleaver and took it out to cut up cereal and soda boxes! Every knife, scissors, and sharp object was then kept under lock and key.
He flooded the bathroom so bad, the water got down into the basement.
Yes, we finally had to put him in the Care Home. To keep him safe and keep me sane.
I say you did the right thing.
When they become a physical threat to themselves or others they have to be in a care home.
So far I can put up with my wife's insanity, the delusions and hallucinations and misplacing and hiding of many things; but always have that gut feeling things could get dangerous in an instance. But that goes with Alzheimers, given enough time.- Tom