Hi all, I am very new to this site so apologies if I am posting in the wrong section.
At the moment, my mom is in a care home dealing with stage 6 VD. I know alot of you will know what stage 6 entails, but for those that don't, her speech isn't understandable, she now had to wear paper pants as she has incontinence, and had terrible mood swings, along with violence and agression.
Bit of background info, I am my moms only child, she is seperated from my dad, and about 10 months before her symptoms started showing I moved out of our home to live with my partner.
I them became pregnant and her symptoms got gradually worse, being unaware of conversations we had, confusion of where she was, forgetting to take regular medication. This was managed between me and my dad, we cared for her between us and cooked meals, administered medication and bathed and cleaned her, until one day when my little girl was 11 months, and I turned up at my moms, to find her unable to speak, walk, talk or do anything.
To cut a long story short, she has now been diagnosed with epilepsy which is linked to her dementia, ( i now know she had a fit the morning I found her at home)
Everytime she has a fit, her dementia gets progressively worse, and in 4 years she has gone from no dementia to stage 6 dementia.
Has anybody experienced anything like this or has any advice on how I should deal with this. My mum has always been very lively and happy so before it was easy to still see her original self, but now after her latest fit she is quiet, not happy, a shell of who she once was and each day going to see her breaks my heart. I always took solice in knowing seeing me made her smile and laugh, but now she seems unable to do that sometimes.
Thankyou for reading x
At the moment, my mom is in a care home dealing with stage 6 VD. I know alot of you will know what stage 6 entails, but for those that don't, her speech isn't understandable, she now had to wear paper pants as she has incontinence, and had terrible mood swings, along with violence and agression.
Bit of background info, I am my moms only child, she is seperated from my dad, and about 10 months before her symptoms started showing I moved out of our home to live with my partner.
I them became pregnant and her symptoms got gradually worse, being unaware of conversations we had, confusion of where she was, forgetting to take regular medication. This was managed between me and my dad, we cared for her between us and cooked meals, administered medication and bathed and cleaned her, until one day when my little girl was 11 months, and I turned up at my moms, to find her unable to speak, walk, talk or do anything.
To cut a long story short, she has now been diagnosed with epilepsy which is linked to her dementia, ( i now know she had a fit the morning I found her at home)
Everytime she has a fit, her dementia gets progressively worse, and in 4 years she has gone from no dementia to stage 6 dementia.
Has anybody experienced anything like this or has any advice on how I should deal with this. My mum has always been very lively and happy so before it was easy to still see her original self, but now after her latest fit she is quiet, not happy, a shell of who she once was and each day going to see her breaks my heart. I always took solice in knowing seeing me made her smile and laugh, but now she seems unable to do that sometimes.
Thankyou for reading x