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cookiedough
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« on: June 11, 2018, 07:17:29 PM »

got call at work 1 p.m. from assisted living to consider taking mom to ER today since unable to walk and not thinking clearly, more so than normal.  Friday she was fine using walker and better mood and speaking clearly.  Sunday went over not so good still able to walk with walker but not as good and her speech was bad and unclear unable to speak and what she did say was pretty mumbled not making any sense.  She for first time also asked if I was there to take her home and wondered why her mom was not visiting her (grandma died about 30 years ago), very puzzling.

ER results of chest xray, blood, and urine as usual came back negative of course today.  Plus, her shaking of hands, body got much worse Sunday and now today very bad to go from/to ER she was unable to even take a step and walk having to need a wheelchair, not good at all, violently shaking her body/arms/etc.

I read up and hope it is just a bad few days,  getting back to walking with walker/less shaking, but sounds like more and more she is beginning her late stages of Altzheimers which on average they say last 1-3 years. 

VERY odd like a flip of a switch Friday she was happy go lucky and walking and speaking pretty good, but Sunday into Monday total opposite very bad.    Cry

I told my brother we need to start thinking of selling her house since highly unlikely now she will ever be able to go back home which was our hopes thinking ya never know it might get better or not progress as badly as it has so sudden like....   She has been in assisted living since December 2018 when she fell at home not doing any damage but also not thinking clearly and walking has gotten much, much worse. 

I cannot imagine not being able to walk confined to a wheelchair for such a dreaded disease as Altzheimers when her technically bodily functions appear normal on the outside. 

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Hooter
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« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2018, 07:29:48 PM »

I feel so bad for her and the family!!! I've been through this very thing and it is heart breaking. As hard as it is, just be with her....Im sorry.
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« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2018, 08:44:10 PM »

It is a cruel disease.  My prayers are going out to you and your family.
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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2018, 02:30:35 AM »

Sorry to read this.

My step mother suffered for nearly 7 years.
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« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2018, 03:23:30 AM »

Sorry to hear that. Its a very cruel disease. My father passed from it.
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« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2018, 03:35:16 AM »

It is one of the most cruel diseases.  I have been through it with my stepfather and while he did lose most of his memories, we found things that would trigger the most deep seated ones, such as music from his youth, a song he had sung, etc.  In his lucid moments, he told us how frustrating it was not to remember, not to know how to do things and how sorry he was for being the way he was.  So we tried to find things he could remember, things he could do. Find those things she most deeply associated with and it will help her. 

Prayers for your family.
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« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2018, 05:49:23 AM »

The Cruelest Disease Imaginable...it steals everything we are. My oldest brother who is 16 years older than me is building imaginary things with his shoe as a hammer. He started showing signs of dementia at about my present age, and my second and fourth oldest brothers are well on their way as well. My mother and my grandfather on her side were afflicted as well. This is scary as hell...like... when's my time???
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« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2018, 05:59:36 AM »

As the above posts, a horrible disease, and I am sorry for all involved. 
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« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2018, 06:05:58 AM »

Sorry to hear this.  We had my mother in-law living with us for a while until she started running away.  We watched her for the last year of her life sitting in wheel chair with her eyes closed never talking.  She would open her mouth to eat but never said a word and never opened her eyes.
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« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2018, 06:31:19 AM »

The Cruelest Disease Imaginable...it steals everything we are. My oldest brother who is 16 years older than me is building imaginary things with his shoe as a hammer. He started showing signs of dementia at about my present age, and my second and fourth oldest brothers are well on their way as well. My mother and my grandfather on her side were afflicted as well. This is scary as hell...like... when's my time???


 Shocked Good luck. Maybe the "odd" brothers miss it?
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« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2018, 10:04:17 AM »

The last time my wife and I visited my grandmother (she died 20 or so years ago), we had a lovely visit, with her being very lucid.  When I told my mom, she was amazed because in recent visits with others she had been quite disconnected from reality.  A friend of mine tells a very similar story of a recent trip to another city to see her mom, who was lucid for one visit, but not for others.  Be grateful for the times when your mom is rational and responsive, rather than being discouraged when she isn't.
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« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2018, 10:06:10 AM »

The Cruelest Disease Imaginable...it steals everything we are. My oldest brother who is 16 years older than me is building imaginary things with his shoe as a hammer. He started showing signs of dementia at about my present age, and my second and fourth oldest brothers are well on their way as well. My mother and my grandfather on her side were afflicted as well. This is scary as hell...like... when's my time???

                 The Truly sad part? Neither one of us will KNOW when it hits. Watched some friends go thru this very thing. I'd really rather NOT go thru that again but!! Fraid of wakin up one day and not Knowing Where I am much less WHO I am! RIDE SAFE.
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« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2018, 05:08:44 PM »

yah,  mom hides it really well by not saying too much, pretty simple person never had much nor needed much to live on.    Sort of surprised me though last few months and again at ER Monday she was asked by Dr's if she knew her name and she said NO and where she was at and she said NO.  Even at the assisted living home she did not know where she was and is in the same town she has lived at for 45+ years town of 1000 people. 

She is having a tough time walking taking even a step and that is not good if her dimentia/altzheimers is even causing the inability to take even a step. 
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