After my Mum was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia in 2011, early stage bowel cancer 2012, she said she didn't want to know if she had anything else wrong with her.
July 2013 she was diagnsoed with Alzheimers. She was told she had a memory problem.
To her she does have a memory problem, but things come back to her in a flash
but she is no different to her friends, and its just her age. She is 74.
Mind you she has a lady from the Alzheimers Soc. That picks her up 2 days a week and takes her to activity groups. Mum has her business card in her purse.
The Geritrician sent a letter to her address by mistake instead of mine, which she read.
Dad was assesed by the Memory Team, who also discussed caring for his wife Alzheimers. He also had a letter posted to him, which Mum read.
Not sure how much Mum reads or takes in, but she hasn't otherwise mentioned it and neither have we.