Many prayers to you and your hubby

My husband has just been diagnosed with early stage dementia! I can’t help but think that these risk factors have had a significant influence on his health! He is 89 years old and started smoking cigarettes at the ripe age of SIX! He and his younger brother would steal cigarettes from their Daddy and hide in the barn to smoke them! That puts him at being a smoker from 1942 until 1990 when he finally put them down…50 plus years! He was able to start and stop at will without any difficulty and started again after his second wife died of lung cancer! He has done very little physical activity in the 6 years that we have been together! He was a heavy drinker in his early years from about 16 years old to about 60 years old but cut back and now only has one beer when grilling and one cocktail when we go out to a nice dinner! He had bypass surgery in 1990 and a few years later a brain aneurysm that resolved itself before the planned Surgery was to be performed! His blood pressure currently runs 150+\50. He was on multiple meds for blood pressure until last summer when his BP was 50/15 at a Dr. appointment! He left that appointment in an ambulance and spent several days in the hospital when they were able to get it higher and out of the danger zone! He prefers red meat despite my protestations! He is hard headed and of German Heritage and despite my best efforts is NOT going to change! I can’t help but believe that his ongoing battle with cancer has played a part in his current situation! He will start medication today for the dementia! We have not picked it up yet…But I share all of this as a cautionary tale to folks who are struggling to stop smoking and drinking…getting physical activity…and changing to a healthy diet! A lot of this is within your control! Take it or Carl’s Story could be your own…Much Love to you All and any prayers you can offer for us would be Welcomed!

“If I knew I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.”
― Mickey Mantle