My Mum 87 has Alzheimers. sorry this is long
After numerous accidents including falling down stairs sustaining high impact injuries including hitting her head. Fracturing her shoulder and hip in a separate fall and another fracturing a vertebra, as well as several others requiring long hospital stays she is still at home. My saint of a husband cares for her with Carer input and my daughters and I fill in the rest including night shift.
Since Christmas she has slept more through the day, had very restless evenings and more recently not eaten anything sensible and getting her to drink is so hard.
Sometimes she looks at us as if she has glass eyes and speaking an alien language. She needs telling nearly every step and as soon as she is near a seat her bottom starts sitting. She also has the amazing ability to try to stand whilst her bottom is magnetised to the seat. We have had several near misses and both my husband and I are carrying injuries from preventing falls
For the last 12 months she has called me Mum and now she is clear that I am her daughter. She cannot watch anything on tv without bring in it and we cannot watch midsommer murders as she becomes suspicious and spits her coffee back n her cup in case its poisoned.
But now she doesnt understand me, she is going off her legs and 3 chips and a few bits of chocolate arent enough to sustain her, She was so frightened tonight and she couldnt talk about it-ultimately she doesnt want to die but is this something that is closer than we would want. Her first great grandchild id due in the summer, I want her to meet him-I am afrais she might not. My heart is breaking and I am crying writing this
After numerous accidents including falling down stairs sustaining high impact injuries including hitting her head. Fracturing her shoulder and hip in a separate fall and another fracturing a vertebra, as well as several others requiring long hospital stays she is still at home. My saint of a husband cares for her with Carer input and my daughters and I fill in the rest including night shift.
Since Christmas she has slept more through the day, had very restless evenings and more recently not eaten anything sensible and getting her to drink is so hard.
Sometimes she looks at us as if she has glass eyes and speaking an alien language. She needs telling nearly every step and as soon as she is near a seat her bottom starts sitting. She also has the amazing ability to try to stand whilst her bottom is magnetised to the seat. We have had several near misses and both my husband and I are carrying injuries from preventing falls
For the last 12 months she has called me Mum and now she is clear that I am her daughter. She cannot watch anything on tv without bring in it and we cannot watch midsommer murders as she becomes suspicious and spits her coffee back n her cup in case its poisoned.
But now she doesnt understand me, she is going off her legs and 3 chips and a few bits of chocolate arent enough to sustain her, She was so frightened tonight and she couldnt talk about it-ultimately she doesnt want to die but is this something that is closer than we would want. Her first great grandchild id due in the summer, I want her to meet him-I am afrais she might not. My heart is breaking and I am crying writing this