Dear All,
Having mentally readjusted myself to the fact my father has probably dropped down a knotch on the 'scale', and having endured almost a week of unprecidented extraordinarily weird behaviour patterns, he has just confounded me - again...
Earlier this week I made an appointment for him to see the Doctor. I've been dropping little hints every day so that it wouldn't come as a shock to him, but all these comments had fallen on fallow ground, thus far.
This afternoon, my father seems to have come out of his fog and has been incredibly lucid. No sundowning, no weird and wonderful conversations and no dead relatives, etc.
Just before dinner, he said that he wanted to have a little chat 'about the visit to the Doctor tommorow at 10am.' [Spot on, day and time already fixed in place in his mind.] We've just had an amazing conversation about his need to have a clean set of clothes to wear, what time we should leave by car to get there in good time, whether my Mother will be coming too, and whether he needs to take a urine sample with him? The last is completely amazing, since I popped into the Doctor on the way home today and picked up a little bottle for that very reason. I haven't even mentioned it yet and it isn't a usual prerequisite. It was actually Sheila's idea to have him checked out for a urinary infection.
I'm just hoping that all this info stays in his mind until tomorrow.
How do AD sufferers do this? I wonder if he is mentally building himself up before the event? Dad seems perfectly calm and rational about the whole visit. He is also nothing LIKE the man that he has been during the last week. Talking to him tonight, is just like being with 'Dad' as I knew him before he got AD. I can reason with him, joke with him and he is so 'together' - and all this after a week of totally demented and loony behaviour.
It just beggars belief....!! How can somebody with a five year history of AD suddenly become 'normal' for a while? He has these 'normal' episodes just after major periods of diorientation. it won't last, but I am treasuring the moment.
Jude
Having mentally readjusted myself to the fact my father has probably dropped down a knotch on the 'scale', and having endured almost a week of unprecidented extraordinarily weird behaviour patterns, he has just confounded me - again...
Earlier this week I made an appointment for him to see the Doctor. I've been dropping little hints every day so that it wouldn't come as a shock to him, but all these comments had fallen on fallow ground, thus far.
This afternoon, my father seems to have come out of his fog and has been incredibly lucid. No sundowning, no weird and wonderful conversations and no dead relatives, etc.
Just before dinner, he said that he wanted to have a little chat 'about the visit to the Doctor tommorow at 10am.' [Spot on, day and time already fixed in place in his mind.] We've just had an amazing conversation about his need to have a clean set of clothes to wear, what time we should leave by car to get there in good time, whether my Mother will be coming too, and whether he needs to take a urine sample with him? The last is completely amazing, since I popped into the Doctor on the way home today and picked up a little bottle for that very reason. I haven't even mentioned it yet and it isn't a usual prerequisite. It was actually Sheila's idea to have him checked out for a urinary infection.
I'm just hoping that all this info stays in his mind until tomorrow.
How do AD sufferers do this? I wonder if he is mentally building himself up before the event? Dad seems perfectly calm and rational about the whole visit. He is also nothing LIKE the man that he has been during the last week. Talking to him tonight, is just like being with 'Dad' as I knew him before he got AD. I can reason with him, joke with him and he is so 'together' - and all this after a week of totally demented and loony behaviour.
It just beggars belief....!! How can somebody with a five year history of AD suddenly become 'normal' for a while? He has these 'normal' episodes just after major periods of diorientation. it won't last, but I am treasuring the moment.
Jude
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