Hi. I’m maybe posting in the wrong place. My mum is 65. She was diagnosed with alzheimer’s last year, she is on donepazil and for a while I think it made a difference, i don’t know though if maybe i just wanted to see it so imagined i did. The last 10 weeks have been challenging for me and mum. We live together. I work full time as a nurse so am out most days. My sister lives in Alva and also works with vulnerable adults and isn’t able to visit.
Mum has been deteriorating at a steady pace but the last 10 weeks it seems to have picked up speed and every day I see something changed. She is very frustrated at not being able to do things easily, not finding her words and also not being able to see her daughter and also her brothers and sisters. She is very angry a lot now too, probably on the back of being frustrated. I don’t know.
I feel desperately sad, for my mum mainly but also for me and my sister. In the past when I am down or unhappy I would speak to my mum about it but I can’t do that with this because it will upset her and she doesn’t need more upset.
She manages with day to day tasks, personal care etc and she has supportive sisters who facetime her and keep in touch.
I don’t know what I expect from posting this. I think I have just reached a point where I feel desperate.
Lorraine xx
Mum has been deteriorating at a steady pace but the last 10 weeks it seems to have picked up speed and every day I see something changed. She is very frustrated at not being able to do things easily, not finding her words and also not being able to see her daughter and also her brothers and sisters. She is very angry a lot now too, probably on the back of being frustrated. I don’t know.
I feel desperately sad, for my mum mainly but also for me and my sister. In the past when I am down or unhappy I would speak to my mum about it but I can’t do that with this because it will upset her and she doesn’t need more upset.
She manages with day to day tasks, personal care etc and she has supportive sisters who facetime her and keep in touch.
I don’t know what I expect from posting this. I think I have just reached a point where I feel desperate.
Lorraine xx
