Dear All,
The last three weeks have been very difficult indeed. My father became very agitiated, to the point where I took him to the Doctor and he is now on a short course of diazepan to calm him down.
The problem with this is that he seems to be even more confused than ever. He now appears to be totally pananoid about life in general and thinks there is a plot to trip him up. Despite going through family photos endlessly, he now insists that I am not his daughter, but some infiltrator in the house. He also refuses to acknowledge my mother as his wife, which of course makes her very upset since she's got AD too. He spends all day insisting that I talk about his family who have mainly passed on; events from over 50 years' ago which I can't [this is taken as evidence that I am an imposter] his finances; and believes that all the family photos are bogus.
The situation here this afternoon has degenerated into a scene from a rather black comedy - again! I am, on the one hand trying convince my father that I am actually his daughter - and on the other consoling my mother because my father has totally lost the plot and doesn't know who she is, either. This has been the norm for the last couple of weeks.
I am just about tearing my hair out...!! I suppose I am going to have to phone the Consultant Psychiatrist again and try and sort something out with him.
There is no point sending one into respite without the other because they are joined at the hip - and it wouldn't be respite for either of them and will just confuse them even more than ever. I don't need respite either really. I just need to work out what on earth I can do with them. They are both winding each other up and it's impossible to calm them down once they get into this 'loop'.
It's getting to the stage where I cannot be in the same room with my father before he starts on 'Ah, now I just want to sort this out with you' and then we are in for another 2 hour session of lunacy. If I leave the room for 5 minutes and then return, then it starts all over again........
Any ideas?
Jude
The last three weeks have been very difficult indeed. My father became very agitiated, to the point where I took him to the Doctor and he is now on a short course of diazepan to calm him down.
The problem with this is that he seems to be even more confused than ever. He now appears to be totally pananoid about life in general and thinks there is a plot to trip him up. Despite going through family photos endlessly, he now insists that I am not his daughter, but some infiltrator in the house. He also refuses to acknowledge my mother as his wife, which of course makes her very upset since she's got AD too. He spends all day insisting that I talk about his family who have mainly passed on; events from over 50 years' ago which I can't [this is taken as evidence that I am an imposter] his finances; and believes that all the family photos are bogus.
The situation here this afternoon has degenerated into a scene from a rather black comedy - again! I am, on the one hand trying convince my father that I am actually his daughter - and on the other consoling my mother because my father has totally lost the plot and doesn't know who she is, either. This has been the norm for the last couple of weeks.
I am just about tearing my hair out...!! I suppose I am going to have to phone the Consultant Psychiatrist again and try and sort something out with him.
There is no point sending one into respite without the other because they are joined at the hip - and it wouldn't be respite for either of them and will just confuse them even more than ever. I don't need respite either really. I just need to work out what on earth I can do with them. They are both winding each other up and it's impossible to calm them down once they get into this 'loop'.
It's getting to the stage where I cannot be in the same room with my father before he starts on 'Ah, now I just want to sort this out with you' and then we are in for another 2 hour session of lunacy. If I leave the room for 5 minutes and then return, then it starts all over again........
Any ideas?
Jude