Hi, I'm new to this - my mum has not had an official diagnosis (refused to attend the memory clinic, or have someone call at home to do assessment). Her symptoms were really mild at first - about a year ago we noticed she struggled to describe things and put simple sentences together. She got peoples names muddled and forgot some conversations. More recently, she has started to report 'seeing things' - bugs with human lower bodies (!!) - at first just occasionally, but now daily. They are not in the house, but in a particular shrub in the garden. She gets really cross when we can't see them but my husband and I now just try to change the subject and divert her. Mum has started to go out in the garden and look for them - when I saw her doing this yesterday she said they saw me coming, they've hidden, but acknowledged she couldn't see them but had been watching them for some time! For a few weeks now she sees an individual or 'family' (mum, dad & child) in her room during he night - more often she describes (with great difficulty) their appearance as being just a face with a shrouded body, sometimes with flowers around them. Normal conversations are difficult and words and phrases are common - 'that thing', 'you know', 'whatsit' and so on instead of proper descriptives. Mum lives with my husband and I so we see all these changes, yet to most on the 'outside' she is not too bad. Her eyesight has deteriorated and so has her hearing - both don't help in trying to manage her. She is also very anxious. No matter what help we offer there is no solution for her and she fights all the way - nothing wrong with my eyes/hearing or memory!! I think she is in classic denial and is aware on a certain level to all these changes but she won't accept outside help or help from me and my husband. I am at the end of my tether as I just see my lovely mum deteriorating in front of me and we seem to fall out all the time.
Has anyone experience of this kind of thing? Any words of wisdom? Thank you
Has anyone experience of this kind of thing? Any words of wisdom? Thank you