JohnBT
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There are dozens of kinds of dementia.
My mother has been through all of the seven stages of what is called Alzheimer's. It started 10 years ago or so, she was really upset/lost in 2005-2007. Now she just sits in the wheelchair at the nursing home and shakes. She chews and swallows if you feed her. She hasn't known me or what state she lives in since 2005.
She quit driving when she couldn't find the keys even though they were in her purse. She thought she drove for years. She quit walking years ago, but said she walked a lot everyday and would tell you where she went.
The middle stages are when they'll do stuff like take the wet clothes out of the washer and carry them the length of the house and hand the entire sopping armload mess of them to you. And make a drink in a mason jar from stuff in the garage.
My father had guns. My mother couldn't find the closet. She did remember that she had her father's I.J. .32 in the cedar chest. They were moving to The Home and my father had given me his guns, so she went and got one we didn't know she had.
It can only be diagnosed with an autopsy, but everybody uses Alzheimer's as a catch-all.
www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_stag...es_02&gclid=CKHF8vGnuaoCFQbe4AodNGkJDg#stage1
My mother has been through all of the seven stages of what is called Alzheimer's. It started 10 years ago or so, she was really upset/lost in 2005-2007. Now she just sits in the wheelchair at the nursing home and shakes. She chews and swallows if you feed her. She hasn't known me or what state she lives in since 2005.
She quit driving when she couldn't find the keys even though they were in her purse. She thought she drove for years. She quit walking years ago, but said she walked a lot everyday and would tell you where she went.
The middle stages are when they'll do stuff like take the wet clothes out of the washer and carry them the length of the house and hand the entire sopping armload mess of them to you. And make a drink in a mason jar from stuff in the garage.
My father had guns. My mother couldn't find the closet. She did remember that she had her father's I.J. .32 in the cedar chest. They were moving to The Home and my father had given me his guns, so she went and got one we didn't know she had.
It can only be diagnosed with an autopsy, but everybody uses Alzheimer's as a catch-all.
www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_stag...es_02&gclid=CKHF8vGnuaoCFQbe4AodNGkJDg#stage1