Hello all - I'm glad for those who had a "better than expected Christmas" and feel for those of you who had a hellish time - I think we were somewhere in between!
Well, yes I'm back on here. I blame myself - I try to back away to give dad some "alone" time on TP and all hell breaks loose!
Well you may wonder why I'm asking about memory loss in AZ when my mum has FTD - however, questions are now being asked about my aunt (my mum's sister).
There seems to be real problems with her short term memory and my cousins tell me it's been building up over a couple of years. Obviously I have advised them to see her GP or write to him if he won't see them (although they all live at the other end of the country to us and their mum).
There are constant memory problems everyday - not so much with remembering where her keys are or things like that - but that she cannot recall a conversation minutes after having it. It's not that they're having to jog her memory she just has no recollection of having the conversation. They had all arranged to come to my house for a party on Boxing Day several months ago but she just couldn't remember it no matter how many times they reminded her - up to four times a day on occasion! It seems like quite an extreme memory loss to me for it to be depression or something like that.
I think I just find it impossible to believe - it would surely be an enormous co-incidence for my aunt to have early on set AZ and my mum to have FTD?
Can the memory loss in AZ be this extreme without too many other symptoms? What else would you expect to see?
I just can't believe it...
Well, yes I'm back on here. I blame myself - I try to back away to give dad some "alone" time on TP and all hell breaks loose!
Well you may wonder why I'm asking about memory loss in AZ when my mum has FTD - however, questions are now being asked about my aunt (my mum's sister).
There seems to be real problems with her short term memory and my cousins tell me it's been building up over a couple of years. Obviously I have advised them to see her GP or write to him if he won't see them (although they all live at the other end of the country to us and their mum).
There are constant memory problems everyday - not so much with remembering where her keys are or things like that - but that she cannot recall a conversation minutes after having it. It's not that they're having to jog her memory she just has no recollection of having the conversation. They had all arranged to come to my house for a party on Boxing Day several months ago but she just couldn't remember it no matter how many times they reminded her - up to four times a day on occasion! It seems like quite an extreme memory loss to me for it to be depression or something like that.
I think I just find it impossible to believe - it would surely be an enormous co-incidence for my aunt to have early on set AZ and my mum to have FTD?
Can the memory loss in AZ be this extreme without too many other symptoms? What else would you expect to see?
I just can't believe it...