I worry about this with my dad. He's not bad yet but there are signs. He used to read all the time 3-4 books a week and can't keep the plot straight now, my mom says the same thing with watching some movie or TV shows with him.

I work in a field where I'm in and out of clients homes, 3-4 times a year and can see how quickly it comes on in some people. From small slips to 3 months later they just aren't there at all. It's sad and scary.

There's this song by a band called Hot Mulligan that's about his grandma's dementia that I've been listening to a lot lately:

quote:

Have you fed the birds, no?
Don't worry, I got it
And no, my brothers not home
You must have forgotten
He died when I was fifteen
Hasn't been here for a long time
Let's talk about something else
Why don't we move outside?

I can see your age
It's in your face
Every wrinkle to a year I can't replace
Won't you tell me how

Watch your house while sitting in my car
Wait and think
How my father said it's spread too far
Soon we'll see
What this illness can do
Probably won't look like you

Didn't think that I would see your memories fade
How your eyes don't light up when you see my face
Would you remember if I never left?
I should've stayed
Would you remember if I never left?
I should've stayed

Oh, I've written all these songs, all meant for you
But I'll turn into a stranger before too soon

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Posted by Jim Rockford

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Posted on 3/29/24 at 2:25 pm to TIGERSTORM

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I work in a field where I'm in and out of clients homes, 3-4 times a year and can see how quickly it comes on in some people. From small slips to 3 months later they just aren't there at all. It's sad and scary.

Eight years ago my mother had a seizure caused by the flu, and it resulted in a bout of psychosis. She became delirious and combative. At the time the Dr. said it might be the tip of the iceberg, but she recovered and was fine for a couple of years. Then another series of seizures, diagnosed with epilepsy, put on meds for that.

About this time my dad started noticing personality changes but nothing major. Four years ago another psychotic break but she recovered from it too. Her executive functioning started to decline, but she was still driving, cooking, etc up until about 1.5 years ago. At that time she started having delusions and hallucinations and there would be days when she was very confused, although at other times she seemed pretty normal. Last December a UTI put her in the hospital and from there she went to the nursing home for rehab. Since then it's been back and forth from nursing home to hospital. Covid, another seizure, another UTI, this time with sepsis, then anemia. Now she's so physically weak that even if she didn't have dementia she would still need to be in the nursing home. Thankfully she seems relatively content there.

She doesn't have an official diagnosis as to what's causing it but the Dr thinks it's microvascular changes in the small blood vessels in her brain.

This post was edited on 3/29/24 at 2:29 pm

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