I've noticed that recently there have been more people posting about relatives with vascular dementia. Last year when I joined, it was fairly unusual and it seemed like I was having conversations with just a small group of people.
I was wondering if the withdrawal of drugs for AD in the early stages and the substitution of other less suitable drugs could be a cause, or perhaps there is just more awareness now.
My Mum is fairly settled at the moment, but sometimes I have absolutely no idea what she is talking about. She thought that everybody had lost their ears on Saturday and a lady had 23 ears on her head. Mum thought this was strange because she'd have thought there would have been 24 ears in 12 pairs!What happened to the missing ear?
I find this type of conversation very disturbing, because I don't know how to explain it. She can hold a perfectly lucid conversation and then come out with something absolutely bizarre.
The lady in the room next door to Mum died last week and it suddenly struck me forcibly, that my Mum has an incurable disease and that there is only one end result. She has been in residential care for nearly two years now and for the first time,I cried for her and just couldn't stop. I felt so silly because I'm not usually like that as I like to be in control of things.There isn't anything much I can do for her now apart from bring her flowers for her room.
Kayla
I was wondering if the withdrawal of drugs for AD in the early stages and the substitution of other less suitable drugs could be a cause, or perhaps there is just more awareness now.
My Mum is fairly settled at the moment, but sometimes I have absolutely no idea what she is talking about. She thought that everybody had lost their ears on Saturday and a lady had 23 ears on her head. Mum thought this was strange because she'd have thought there would have been 24 ears in 12 pairs!What happened to the missing ear?
I find this type of conversation very disturbing, because I don't know how to explain it. She can hold a perfectly lucid conversation and then come out with something absolutely bizarre.
The lady in the room next door to Mum died last week and it suddenly struck me forcibly, that my Mum has an incurable disease and that there is only one end result. She has been in residential care for nearly two years now and for the first time,I cried for her and just couldn't stop. I felt so silly because I'm not usually like that as I like to be in control of things.There isn't anything much I can do for her now apart from bring her flowers for her room.
Kayla