Becoming more and more difficult...

[imtheenemy]

I stayed awake to call my mom last night, being full aware her dementia is getting worse... but knowing she has good and bad times. When I got on the phone, she recognized me, and the conversation went great for the first 4-5 minutes or so... then, just like a light switch she blurted out with this question

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[yenny2206]

Oh hon.. My thughts and prayers for you and your fam.

[umbreons_shadow]

*hugs*

[msflutterbye]

My grandmother had dementia and used to do a similar thing. The house she lived in for most of my life was a single story brick house. But in her early stages of dementia, especially in the late afternoon or evening, she'd get confused and think she was in the house she grew up in and raised her children in. It was an old wooden two story house.

She'd ask "how did you find me? The house has moved and I can't go upstairs any more" She'd also get upset and say that people had stolen her fruit trees, because in the backyard of her old house she had huge old mango and mulberry tress, where at her new house there were roses. Or she'd complain about not being able to open the windows. Her old house had windows that slid up and out, and her brick house had windows that would just slide open.

Dementia is such a cruel disease. It's heartbreaking to watch someone you love suffer from it.

[imtheenemy]

thank you, it's really nice to know other people know what I'm going through with this - it is a horrendous disease... I know a few months ago she was talking to me saying how she was SO afraid of getting Alzheimer's... like in tears crying kinda thing... and then about a month later she told e that she can no longer hold onto her bladder, how she's just going EVERYWHERE

[cain1k]

My grandfather has Alzheimers and after his cancer meds and radiation did him in a lot it went to straight on dementia. Given it is your mom, I could only imagine, but I know he went from being himself to being a whole other individual. *HUGS*