Hi everyone, this is my first post here and I wondered if anyone else has similiar experiences they could maybe share. Firstly s little bit of background on my situation. My gran is 74 and was first diagnosed with alzheimers and parkinson disease 3 years ago. She seems to be in the late stages of the disease now. My mum built an extension on to her house to enable my gran and granda to live with her and be able to care for her. My gran is now barely recognisable as the person who cared for us grandchilden since we were babies. My parents worked full time when we were growing up so my gran had a big part in bringing us up and therefore she was more like a second mum. She can now do practically nothing for herself anymore. She needs help with toileting, eating, washing, dressing etc. She can no longer communicate verbally. She just mumbles with the odd recognisable word thrown in. All of this, as I am sure you will understand, has been extremely difficult to watch and accept. We are ,however, all used to it but yesterday she had 2 seizures. This is the bit that is extremely worrying for us now. We weren't aware that this would happen and I just wondered if maybe anyone here had any experience of this and if so, what can we expect for the future.
I'm sorry this post is so rambling but I type this with tears in my eyes and my thoughts are a bit jumbled.
I'm sorry this post is so rambling but I type this with tears in my eyes and my thoughts are a bit jumbled.