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My mother was DX with Alzheimers several years ago...she showed signs of this many many years prior to this...but my mother was insensed that any one would think this way of her....her other children only "caudled" her, then turned on me that I was trying to get her help...at least investigate this.
They've never been close with her like I was once....and now won't even hardly talk to her.
She just had a lot of frustration over "losing her words" as she put it...but basically made perfect sense most of the time...but a little forgettful at times. Nothing I'd ever been alarmed about it till today.
When I called her she was very very confused....told me my bro Tom had called her for MD....then said "the eggs were good...she came over here to say hello". Nothing she said made sense. I couldn't unerstand or follow her thinking.
Her husband said she's been this way all day. I asked him to call her doctor, but she fired her over a year ago because she told her she had ALZ!
This only made my mother angry, and had her drivers lic taken away.
Her husband is very low IQ....he's a nice guy...but he's got a few sandwiches missing outa the picnic basket!
My family is totally torn apart, and been years since any have talked with one another...I'm blamed for causing my parants divorce despite our father being horribly abusive, physically and mentally...aslo never worked, just scammed others and gambled....add religeon to that mix...one sicko family!
I can't talk to ANY of them....and they have only minimal contact with our mother. She' living 6 hour drive away from all of us....and I just don't know what to do.
I'm too ill to get involved with her care AND I have a full plate myself...so I'm not wanting to jump in and take over her care.
I have no idea what form of ALZ she has and no way of finding out unless I were to take charge.
Am I going to lose my mother sooner than I thought?
How long do they live when they lose their "minds"...what happens next?
Is there a pattern?
She's been on Arocept for a year now...aslo Methyl B12.
I am so worried about all this...I haven't read much...I guess I need to right away.
Thanks, cheryl