I don't know if its the weather or the fact I have just noticed but when my mum gets slightly agitated she starts to spell words, but ones that don't spell anything or mean anything, they probably do to mum but to me I haven't a clue and when I ask she doesn't know what they mean or why she is spelling? Should I be worried or just let it go as another dimension to the Alzheimer's (I will check her urine just incase its a UTI doing this).
Spelling.
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Good move. It got to the point with my mum that the GP just believed me when I phoned and said UTI. I got to the stage I could recognise it without even the dip test. Just thinking. She died 2 years ago on 13th. I remember we had sunny weather then too.
Bill is now getting these blasted UTIs. At least I know what I'm looking for! He doesn't spell things but he reads out every car number plate we walk past! That's not an infection - just annoying!!
Bill is now getting these blasted UTIs. At least I know what I'm looking for! He doesn't spell things but he reads out every car number plate we walk past! That's not an infection - just annoying!!
I checked mums urine, she has a slight infection so have phoned down for Trimethoprim, like you my Dr doesn't doubt me when I say she has an infection. I am hoping the 'spelling' is down to the UTI and not anything else.
Number plate reading does sound annoying, mum has started counting the riders in the Tour de France not all the time just when there is a break away in the peloton.
Number plate reading does sound annoying, mum has started counting the riders in the Tour de France not all the time just when there is a break away in the peloton.
Interesting post
As I mentioned before so many subjects on here I've come accross. At a NH:
"There were a number of ladies trying to wiggle out of Dementa through having nothing to pass God's good time. In a room across the corridor from Jean one lady could be heard loudly repeat letters that one might discern formed her address. The sing song sounds were reminisent of a time when children were trained to unthinkingly repeat letters to form words. The method was referred to as being 'taught' by rote."
Extract from my story.
As I mentioned before so many subjects on here I've come accross. At a NH:
"There were a number of ladies trying to wiggle out of Dementa through having nothing to pass God's good time. In a room across the corridor from Jean one lady could be heard loudly repeat letters that one might discern formed her address. The sing song sounds were reminisent of a time when children were trained to unthinkingly repeat letters to form words. The method was referred to as being 'taught' by rote."
Extract from my story.
When mum first started spelling (not long ago) I thought it was just from doing her wordsearches, as she would spell the word as she was looking for it until she found it and then moved onto the next one, I am just hoping its something that will pass.
I hope you get your mum's UTI sorted out.
I think I should be pleased that Bill can still read the number plates now that I think of it.
Allen my husband reads things on doors, notices, menus. leaflets and beer mats, over and over again when we are out, each time he reads them as though he is spelling them out for the first time, even if it's the 50th, I had a laundry bag that I left outside our son's bedroom door which is just opposite to where he sits in the living room, that had LAUNDRY written on if he read it once L AU ND RY he read it a dozen times in 5 minutes, I had to get up and move it before i stuck it on his head 
If he gets a letter he looks at it puts it back in the envelope then takes it straight out and does the same again over and over as if it's the first time he has read it until i take it off him,
Sorry this isn't helping you i just thought i would tell you
Jeany x
If he gets a letter he looks at it puts it back in the envelope then takes it straight out and does the same again over and over as if it's the first time he has read it until i take it off him,
Sorry this isn't helping you i just thought i would tell you
Jeany x
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It's like everything else 1954. Something drives me nuts then it becomes the norm. I just have to remind myself how lucky I am that I still have my husband here with me. Although we read a lot of number plates at least we're out holding hands and walking. Long may that last.
I suppose its annoying more than anything, I don't know whether mum is trying to tell me something or its just her mechanism for coping when she gets slightly agitated I just don't know, will go with the fact its a UTI brewing and see what happens.
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