Hi; this is my first post as I’m struggling to care for my elderly mother who has Alzheimer’s and womb cancer.
Mostly things are fine, repetitive questions etc is wearing but bearable. I am being tipped over the edge with her toilet issues.
On Sunday, after being left for a very short while she went into kitchen and had a poo in cereal bowls she took out of cupboard. This morning she has wet and soiled her pad then tore it into small pieces and scattered it like confetti all over her bedroom floor.
She seems to go through different phases, this week it’s toilet, last week she had a very sleepy week, some weeks she rips and pulls apart her clothes - blaming an unknown child for the destruction, some weeks she is argumentative and difficult. Some times she is lovely and her old self. I never no which one is going To manifest.
Does anyone else have similar issues? Any advice out there?
(She has palliative care for the stage 2 cancer, other than bleeding there are no other issues, the dementia prevents her understanding the cancer diagnosis)
Mostly things are fine, repetitive questions etc is wearing but bearable. I am being tipped over the edge with her toilet issues.
On Sunday, after being left for a very short while she went into kitchen and had a poo in cereal bowls she took out of cupboard. This morning she has wet and soiled her pad then tore it into small pieces and scattered it like confetti all over her bedroom floor.
She seems to go through different phases, this week it’s toilet, last week she had a very sleepy week, some weeks she rips and pulls apart her clothes - blaming an unknown child for the destruction, some weeks she is argumentative and difficult. Some times she is lovely and her old self. I never no which one is going To manifest.
Does anyone else have similar issues? Any advice out there?
(She has palliative care for the stage 2 cancer, other than bleeding there are no other issues, the dementia prevents her understanding the cancer diagnosis)