a little Navy humor...but seriously, what have you done to make your homes safer for all concerned?? ( I'm hoping all firearms are secure) Nights are a real challenge, inspite of Seroquel then Gabapentin, then a combination of both, my husband still wanders. We sleep in the same bedroom but I would love to change that and I"m worried. Do any of you lock your significant other in their own spaces ....with baby monitors. I'm planning on moving furniture in front of stairs. the outside doors are triple locked. what else can I do???
janerie: Sympathy from me, but, I have no guts. The dr's and evaluators have suggested all of these things (and then some) to me and I haven't done them yet. I'm still 'going to'.
We have a ranch so no need to worry about stairs, but I do have keyed deadbolts on the doors of the house so he cannot leave without me knowing it. He was a little upset when I first did it a few months ago but now it doesn't bother him. I haven't had any trouble with our sleeping arrangment yet.
janeie - if he wanders that bad and you can't keep him in, then you may have to consider placement. When my MIL died, that was our 'ace in the hole' when it came to getting him into the VA Alzheimer unit. MY FIL could get out of anything faster than you could catch him which made him a danger to himself.
When DH went thru a brief phase of roaming and wanting out in the middle of the nite i put keyed deadbolt on our bedroom door as well as all entry doors. it gave me security knowing he could get up but not out into the rest of the house at nite and into trouble without me hearing. i still use it at nite for my own safety even though he no longer roams.
if you do put locks be sure to leave extra sets of keys where you or someone else can get to them in an emergency. you learn fast when you get locked out! others do use monitors in other bedrooms at nite they will offer you advice on that. good luck, divvi
We live in the country, have always had guns and DH has had an extensive 'collection'.. was a hunter etc... Drs advised to remove guns and etc. at the very beginning (maybe thats the introductory speech at diagnosis?) but that would have caused a huge difficulty.. Gradually the guns have been dispersed among our children..and more recently, when DH began making some comments about being 'not worth anything' can't do anything anymore' I'm in the way etcc. Our son came and removed all the ammunition. DH can see that his favorite guns are in the guncase and there are boxes of ammunition..with no bullets in them. Guns have been checked and are all unloaded. No one is going to be bringing him any bullets and he's can't go to a store for them. So at first glance.. everything is as he expects to see it..but nothing will actually work. The prospect of an empty guncase would cause uproar delux..and for us, this is working..
I was worried because I am a pretty sound sleeper and my DH was getting up in the night and leaving the room.I had my son install alarms on the bedroom door and the outside doors. They are way high up where he never looks and I can barely reach. They are like a shrill siren going off, and they DO wake me up. The guns are still here but I have all the amunition locked up, and the key on my keychain.