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26814. judithathome - 2/24/2012 8:47:17 PM Sympathy all around...for all of you in that situation.
That illness can cause so much stress for the caregivers...I hate to sound callous but I feel so lucky my parents went quickly. 26815. PsychProf - 2/24/2012 9:36:56 PM Wombat...Outrageous pay for PsychProfs there. 26816. arkymalarky - 2/25/2012 2:21:19 AM My parents, at age 80 and 75, are so healthy I don't have any clue when or if they will get like that. Stan's mother is just beginning to show some memory problem at 82. I feel for people going through the aging illnesses of their parents. 26817. iiibbb - 2/25/2012 5:58:12 PM It is awful--
I know most of the vitriol that he says is due to the disease, but it doesn't help that the particular delusions he's sticking with is the constant need to get out of that house and go "home" to philadelphia so he can get to work at the school that is only 10 minutes from the house he doesn't think he lives in.
Most of the time I can tell him that he's got a brain disease that messes with his short term memory and perception of time, so I know that he finds these things hard to believe, and he tends to calm down.
MiL and BiL have grown weary of it - but they also could greatly improve the way they engage him. They think they can reason with him... and the BiL is painful to listen to because he couldn't make a point quickly if his life dependend on it. Instead he is very confusing which tends to antagonize FiL. MiL just gets tired--- quits saying please and thank you and FiL doesn't like the be bossed around.
It is a messy situation. 26818. concerned - 2/26/2012 12:00:10 AM Geez. The Mote is still around. And the political discussions sound like just before the Bolsheviks took over in Russia. No such thing as 'lessons learned' among Lefties. 26819. concerned - 2/26/2012 12:01:55 AM Geez. The Mote is still around. And the political discussions sound like just before the Bolsheviks took over in Russia. No such thing as 'lessons learned' among Lefties. 26820. arkymalarky - 2/26/2012 1:47:09 AM Concerned!!!!! Hahaha!!! Great to see you! 26821. concerned - 2/26/2012 2:20:50 AM Hi, Arky - sorry about double post - that seems to happen occasionally with the internet service I have. 26822. wabbit - 2/26/2012 2:29:25 AM Hey concerned! Great to see/read you again! 26823. wabbit - 2/26/2012 2:32:36 AM iiibbb, I wish I had something encouraging to say. I hope you find a way to cope. 26824. concerned - 2/26/2012 2:35:50 AM Hi, Wabbit - thought the Mote could use a little political diversity. 26825. thoughtful - 2/26/2012 2:48:42 AM My uncle's wife had Alzheimer's and she would wake up in the middle of the night insisting she go " home" or her parents would kill her. Bless his heart, he'd take her for a drive, stopping at various houses asking if this is where she lived. Finally, he'd stop at their house and she would say, yes I think this is the one, and they'd go in and back to bed.
It's a horrible disease. 26826. Wombat - 2/27/2012 12:14:11 AM My mother has Loew's Body Dementia, which combines Alzheimers and Parkinsonian symptoms. The bad news: she is no longer in touch with anything remotely resembling reality; the good news: she can't leave her bed... 26827. arkymalarky - 2/27/2012 2:20:51 AM Oh my.
My grandmother lost her mind way bwfore her body and she had a temper. Try to keep ger from doing crazy things like climbing on the roof and you were likely to get hurt. Ask my brother. 26828. PsychProf - 2/28/2012 7:21:07 AM Chatted with FreeToChoose at a basketball game(Notre Dame vs Connecticut, women) tonight…he looks well, and happy. 26829. vonKreedon - 2/28/2012 5:18:53 PM FritoCheese! 26830. arkymalarky - 2/28/2012 5:29:31 PM Yay!!!!! 26831. PsychProf - 2/28/2012 9:38:51 PM For Wombat...hope this doesn't cause problems here...
26832. Wombat - 2/29/2012 12:24:24 AM PsychProf,
We visited Quinnipiac in August. A very nice campus. 26833. PsychProf - 2/29/2012 1:15:58 AM I have spent my professional life there.
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