Have just come back from my Mum's and I'm simply more confused that her I think.
I'm the primary care giver from my family, as my brothers simply live too far away. Mum's reaction to me is negative to say the least, but I understand it's all part of AD.
However, today while I was there, one of my brother's phoned, and listening to her on the telephone, she was totally 'normal', good spirits, a little bit of forgetting words, but that was about it.
Yet as soon as she had finished the phone call, it was as if someone had 'flipped a switch' and when I tried to converse with her, she was back to being very vague, not answering, forgetting what i'd said within a second or two and generally very obstructive.
I simply cannot understand this - it really does appear that her attitude towards me is deliberately nasty.
She knows who I am, she knows I'm her daughter (I'd got my brother to steer the conversation deliberately to find out), yet it's as if she actually enjoys being extremely difficult towards me.
Can anyone shed any light on this or is it simply what appears to be a conscious change, but is in fact part of AD.
I simply do not know. :-(
I'm the primary care giver from my family, as my brothers simply live too far away. Mum's reaction to me is negative to say the least, but I understand it's all part of AD.
However, today while I was there, one of my brother's phoned, and listening to her on the telephone, she was totally 'normal', good spirits, a little bit of forgetting words, but that was about it.
Yet as soon as she had finished the phone call, it was as if someone had 'flipped a switch' and when I tried to converse with her, she was back to being very vague, not answering, forgetting what i'd said within a second or two and generally very obstructive.
I simply cannot understand this - it really does appear that her attitude towards me is deliberately nasty.
She knows who I am, she knows I'm her daughter (I'd got my brother to steer the conversation deliberately to find out), yet it's as if she actually enjoys being extremely difficult towards me.
Can anyone shed any light on this or is it simply what appears to be a conscious change, but is in fact part of AD.
I simply do not know. :-(