living with alzheimer's

Today is January 27th, 2016  My dad has been with us since November of 2014.  Since he moved in with us because my sister and brother's and I knew it was time he could no longer live in the assisted living.  He needed more help.  He could walk at the time without the help of anything.  He could get up and go to the bathroom and do what he needed to do without any help.  He now is in a wheelchair mostly and if he needs to stand up we use the walker.  He used the walker in-between now and back then but he no longer can use that safely either.  When he tries to walk with the walker now he leans to one side and really can not get his feet to go where he wants them too.   He has become incontinent  and needs to wear depends briefs all the time.  He refers to me as this gal or miss.  He told my husband the other day that this gal tried to hit him.  Then later he added with snowballs.  he sometimes talks coherently and sometimes he just kinda of babbles.  When my sister comes by he sometimes knows who she is but mostly not.  When we saw the neurologist he could not name any of his children but he did know he had five.  I know one of these days he will be bed ridden and I am not looking forward to that at all.  I think I need to find a support group online just to see what is ahead.  Then, at least, I will be prepared.  When he came up here he was having a tough time walking any distance so,  we thought perhaps it was his heart again.  but, come to find out it was not that.  It was because at some point he had had a stroke and it paralyzed his diaphragm and so his lung atrophied.  So, he only has one lung that works and yet he does not need oxygen because he keeps his oxygen levels above 90, usually around 95.  How he does that with one lung is beyond me.  he has had a stint put in about 5 years ago and he has had a partial hip replacement last year.  I think I will look up a online support group and see how that goes for now.