Apologies in advance for the length to anyone that reads this post.
I'm not one to usually post myself but it's gotten a little much lately.
My grandmother has alzheimer's and it's progressed heavily very fast from diagnosis in October to now. Just before and in the middle of those months there was a nasty streak - I've read it's a common symptom and can see quite a lot of people on here have experienced similar or the same, but lately it's gotten really bad again. She's creating scenarios that never even remotely happened, lying about very serious things shall we say, accussing my dad and I of theft when she has "lost" something or even lost something that doesn't exist and being extremely hurtful and plain nasty.
Shes even started to call the police and threatens us with that everytime she's accussing us of something that isn't true. It's happening at all hours now too.
The last 2/2.5 months, she's had other symptoms, etc that show the alzheimer's is setting in more - blank stares, lack of eating, etc... But we haven't had the nastiness. I thought we moved passed that stage and now it's back.
I just can't stand having NO answers as to how long this part will last.
Sorry again for the length, just needed to get it off my chest and this felt like a safe and non-judgy space.
I'm not one to usually post myself but it's gotten a little much lately.
My grandmother has alzheimer's and it's progressed heavily very fast from diagnosis in October to now. Just before and in the middle of those months there was a nasty streak - I've read it's a common symptom and can see quite a lot of people on here have experienced similar or the same, but lately it's gotten really bad again. She's creating scenarios that never even remotely happened, lying about very serious things shall we say, accussing my dad and I of theft when she has "lost" something or even lost something that doesn't exist and being extremely hurtful and plain nasty.
Shes even started to call the police and threatens us with that everytime she's accussing us of something that isn't true. It's happening at all hours now too.
The last 2/2.5 months, she's had other symptoms, etc that show the alzheimer's is setting in more - blank stares, lack of eating, etc... But we haven't had the nastiness. I thought we moved passed that stage and now it's back.
I just can't stand having NO answers as to how long this part will last.
Sorry again for the length, just needed to get it off my chest and this felt like a safe and non-judgy space.