My MILs sister is visiting.
Tonight they went through some old photos. Although MIL remembered most of the people, the events themselves were lost. We are quite shocked as we thought she was only at the short-term loss stage. It appears she is much better at masking than we realised....
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Yes its a hard one allright. On the surface my Mum ( diagnosed with AD 2013) still seems to remember most from her childhood and growing up in Scotland talking as if itvwas yesterday, but show her a photo from her childhood she cannot even pick herself at times let alone her parents.
I showed her an old photo of my brother and she mistook him for my Uncle that died over 20 yrs ago.
When Mum was 20 she lived in Africa when Dad was in the Army.
When Mum was 53 she went to Papua New Guinea to visit when my sister lived there.
She will see a photo of the two time periods but mixes them up.
How can she see herself as a 53yo thinking she was 20 and living in Africa?
Now she is starting to forget who is related to who.
Asking me the other day if her Great Aunt was her mothers sister.....( she is) If anything its this that has finally made Mums sisters and brothers realise that we are not just making Mums Alzheimers up, and she is far more advanced than they realise.