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re: My Mom has been getting worse with her dementia
Posted on 3/29/24 at 2:25 pm to TIGERSTORM
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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