Hi,
I've been worried about my mum a while. She lives alone since my dad passed almost five years ago. She's 72. She seems to think all of her clocks are wrong and sees nothing wrong with the fact she turned up at my house at 5am when she should have come at 10am to look after my 18month old. She regularly struggles to tell the time. I bought her an atomic clock, but she can't read it?? She keeps turning up to things on the wrong time and even he wrong day. Today I had to explain to her (after she became irate at a friend) that today was February 20th, not march the 1st which is the date they'd agreed in the diary. She couldn't understand and decided her diary was wrong and it's all to do with this 'darkness'. Yesterday she accused me of lying. She says she's spoken to people today, when it was last week. She lost her keys and was convinced they were stolen; I asked her if she'd checked under the sofa (it's a powered recliner) before she called the locksmith. She said yes. I found her keys under the sofa when i visited two days later.
I am worried as she looks after my little boy. But she's always told me I'm not to take him off her and after her accusation of lying yesterday I can see shes becoming more paranoid. I've never lied to her. Over the last few weeks where she's forgotten what day appointments are, when she's meeting friends or looking after my boy, I've spoken to her about her memory. She insists it's all fine. Today I outright said I'd like to go with her to the doctor's to see about her memory. She became very defensive. She said there's nothing wrong and she'd only see a doctor if she had to.
She's increasingly emotional and paranoid. She needs to know what I'm doing all the time. I called her GP and he just told me to get he to book an appointment and come with her. What do I do about getting her in? And how do I keep my little boy safe? She took him for a walk the other day but he's not very good at holding hands and years ago my tiny dog dragged mum over (she's not steady on her feet) so I hate to think what would have happened if my little boy had decided to throw a tantrum.
What should I do? It's really worrying me. My husband got angry with her at the weekend as she only put my little boys meal in the microwave for 17seconds when it should have been 2.5 mins. She insisted it was in for the correct time but he'd watched her do it. So now he's public enemy number one and she's decided he must also be aggressive with me. She also told a friend of mine that I overmedicate my little boy, which is frightening that she thinks that.
Please help.
I've been worried about my mum a while. She lives alone since my dad passed almost five years ago. She's 72. She seems to think all of her clocks are wrong and sees nothing wrong with the fact she turned up at my house at 5am when she should have come at 10am to look after my 18month old. She regularly struggles to tell the time. I bought her an atomic clock, but she can't read it?? She keeps turning up to things on the wrong time and even he wrong day. Today I had to explain to her (after she became irate at a friend) that today was February 20th, not march the 1st which is the date they'd agreed in the diary. She couldn't understand and decided her diary was wrong and it's all to do with this 'darkness'. Yesterday she accused me of lying. She says she's spoken to people today, when it was last week. She lost her keys and was convinced they were stolen; I asked her if she'd checked under the sofa (it's a powered recliner) before she called the locksmith. She said yes. I found her keys under the sofa when i visited two days later.
I am worried as she looks after my little boy. But she's always told me I'm not to take him off her and after her accusation of lying yesterday I can see shes becoming more paranoid. I've never lied to her. Over the last few weeks where she's forgotten what day appointments are, when she's meeting friends or looking after my boy, I've spoken to her about her memory. She insists it's all fine. Today I outright said I'd like to go with her to the doctor's to see about her memory. She became very defensive. She said there's nothing wrong and she'd only see a doctor if she had to.
She's increasingly emotional and paranoid. She needs to know what I'm doing all the time. I called her GP and he just told me to get he to book an appointment and come with her. What do I do about getting her in? And how do I keep my little boy safe? She took him for a walk the other day but he's not very good at holding hands and years ago my tiny dog dragged mum over (she's not steady on her feet) so I hate to think what would have happened if my little boy had decided to throw a tantrum.
What should I do? It's really worrying me. My husband got angry with her at the weekend as she only put my little boys meal in the microwave for 17seconds when it should have been 2.5 mins. She insisted it was in for the correct time but he'd watched her do it. So now he's public enemy number one and she's decided he must also be aggressive with me. She also told a friend of mine that I overmedicate my little boy, which is frightening that she thinks that.
Please help.
