Hi All
My name is Robert my wife was diagnosed with Vascular dementia in 2014 we are both in our 80s in the early days her memory was not too good but we could manage ok but around 2018 she startes saying things like "i have had no housekeeping of you for 6 week"
and numerous other things at first i thought she was joking as i gave her her housekeeping religouslyand this use to start around 4 pm and she use to get a bit angry over trivial things also she started getting bad on her feet nearly falling she did eventually fall and broke her arm.
after that and an operation to set her arm she got a lot worse having hallucinations saying "whos that sat up there" no one says I, cant you see them you must be blind
I took her to the docs who gave her memory test again and said VD is getting worse but it may have been after effects of the anesthetic we cant give any medication for it.
Well to cut long story short when she gets up in a morning she is quite chipper and makes juvenile jokes sometimes sexual quotes then around 11 am its like a switch as been thrown and she starts when are we going home ,we are home says I oh no we not we at my mums house no we not, 5 secs later same thing must be 10 ,20 times what day is it .
She cannot rember a thing at night she packs things up into her handbag and says i want a taxi i will go to my sister she will look after me, her sister died 10 years ago it seems she is in the past
if i am in kitchen doing dishes or putting washing in she comes up behind me asking what i am doing if i go out which is only 15 min at most she says you have been 2 hours phrases that are all the same
Sorry for the long saga
I just wondered if anyone else as this type experience
there is loads more but im sure you get the gist
Thanks for reading
Robert
My name is Robert my wife was diagnosed with Vascular dementia in 2014 we are both in our 80s in the early days her memory was not too good but we could manage ok but around 2018 she startes saying things like "i have had no housekeeping of you for 6 week"
and numerous other things at first i thought she was joking as i gave her her housekeeping religouslyand this use to start around 4 pm and she use to get a bit angry over trivial things also she started getting bad on her feet nearly falling she did eventually fall and broke her arm.
after that and an operation to set her arm she got a lot worse having hallucinations saying "whos that sat up there" no one says I, cant you see them you must be blind
I took her to the docs who gave her memory test again and said VD is getting worse but it may have been after effects of the anesthetic we cant give any medication for it.
Well to cut long story short when she gets up in a morning she is quite chipper and makes juvenile jokes sometimes sexual quotes then around 11 am its like a switch as been thrown and she starts when are we going home ,we are home says I oh no we not we at my mums house no we not, 5 secs later same thing must be 10 ,20 times what day is it .
She cannot rember a thing at night she packs things up into her handbag and says i want a taxi i will go to my sister she will look after me, her sister died 10 years ago it seems she is in the past
if i am in kitchen doing dishes or putting washing in she comes up behind me asking what i am doing if i go out which is only 15 min at most she says you have been 2 hours phrases that are all the same
Sorry for the long saga
I just wondered if anyone else as this type experience
there is loads more but im sure you get the gist
Thanks for reading
Robert