So many with dementia continue to ask about their car: We posed a picture of Dad's car parked safely in the garage (washed & polished) with my sister standing next to it. It's framed in his room. We involved my Dad in the decision on what to do when he couldn't drive it: I explained insurance was less if we added it to my sister's policy. We still get constant questions about the car: did you change the oil? etc. But the photo seems to give him some resolution or take him back in his memory when "everything was OK". I'm really glad, now, that we took the picture: the car is not in the greatest shape anymore.

I think this is so wierd that our LOs obsess on the same things: My husband Ken is also fixated on toothbrushes. My mom-in-law, who lives with us, has to keep her brush and paste in a cup in her bedroom and take them with her when she needs to brush because Ken would take hers from her bathroom and walk around brushing his teeth. I find toothbrushes in all places (I also buy the jumbo packs and have to bring out new ones because the others go missing): I usually find them in pockets or hidden in drawers, sometimes in his depends for safe-keeping. I had to hide all the razors in the house because Ken shaved the same spot on his face all day long with blade razor and electric razor until it bled. He won't let me shave him so we grew his beard and I have it trimmed by our hairstylist. Mockturtle, you're right, it catches everything when he eats so I wash it with baby shampoo every day! And the cat: he keeps warning me that my cat is an attack cat so if I leave the room the cat has to come with me so it doesn't attack. It's so good to laugh at these quirks otherwise we'd be in tears all day. I'll think of the rest of you next time I pull a toothbrush from the dishwasher! Sher
Oh, his other fixation that I didn't hear mentioned is Q-tips: we have to keep a supply in his pocket at all times...

My MIL obsesses over her wallet. She is constantly checking it. She also hides it all over her room - then can't remember where she hid it. It has turned up under her mattress, in her pillow case, under her bedside table, in her closet. Always a new adventure in Lewy Land.

LOL, my husband, too. The wallet has replaced his shavers as his main focus of obsession. Although, yesterday, he managed to lose two pairs of shoes. I found one pair in my closet. Still don't know where the others are.

Judy,
I was relieved to finally read about Tooth brushes, earlier reading I thought maybe my Jim was the only one ! He brushed his teeth constantly, I always thought it had something to do with losing his taste.

The shaver we ended up with was the Norelco and it worked OK, I just didn't do well with a hand held razor.

I took D. out for lunch today and, though we both enjoyed it---it had been a while---he's absolutely spent now and, fortunately, in bed for a nap.

Leone, he always has weird delusions!

BTW, he also will obsess on finances and I print him off a financial statement which he probably doesn't comprehend, anyway, except he can at least see that we have nothing in the 'liability' column. I have always handled our finances, at any rate. I think I mentioned before that when I first met him he had a box in his apartment full of unopened bills!

Once again I am amazed at how spot-on your posts are- I could have written almost any of them about Ken. He obsesses about very little now, but not so long ago he carried a toothbrush in every pocket and continually brushed his teeth. His mom had to hide her toothbrushes in her bedroom cuz Ken would cruise by her bathroom and take them. He also obsessed about his wallet and hid it several times a day. That is mostly what our days consisted of: looking for Ken's wallet. And razors, and continually shaving, but mostly one spot that would get very irritated until I had to hide the razors and tell him they were charging. And the finances. No bank was to be trusted so he would log onto the bank accounts continually to check account balances. Of course, numbers were one of the first obvious problems, so I had to gently take over paying the bills, etc. And, he would forget how to get onto the websites so I would have to be called in to log him on, and he got locked out (too many failed password attempts) on a daily basis so we'd have to call and get them to clear him again. All so sad but it definitely brings a smile to my face to think of all the places I've found the hidden wallet and the stashed toothbrushes. One day at a time! Sher

interesting thread... hubby has many of the same obsessions.. razor, wallet.. but right up there with them.. is paper.. he moves and looks at all papers and then hides it... normally they are shopping lists, mail, newspaper, etc.. any thing paper.. so much of our time, is spent looking for these.. hes very creative on where he hides them...
the other is taking a kleenex/tissue and wiping up little spots in the floor .. whether it needs it or not.. this happens over and over...all day long...

since we are still not sure about lewy, being the diagnosis, is this obession thing across the board, on all dementias????
cindi

Yes, papers, too! I print off 'important documents' for him and he has fun moving them from place to place, much as our dog does with a favorite bone.

Yes, I think these types of behaviors are common to all dementias.

Cindi,
Obsessions occur in many dementias and in many psychiatric illnesses. It is not exclusive to Lewy Body Dementia.
Robin