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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration with declining activities of daily living and neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes. An early symptom is memory loss (amnesia), usually manifesting as minor forgetfulness that becomes pronounced with illness progression, with relative...

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helpless35
helpless35

Hi everyone 


this morning my mother started taking and she stated to me that she didn’t want to move to Goregia, and stay in Florida, I asked her what was her reasoning, and she stated the traffic and the weather, keep in mind she hasn’t driven in over 1 year and she never really leave the house unless I take her, she has went back and fourth for the last few months about where she wants to live, she told me that she would love me to come with her, or I can move on, what she doesn’t realize is I’m there because she can’t be by herself, in a day or two she’ll start talking about  Georgia again, and it starts al over, she will be getting tested tomorrow hopefully I’ll get some answer, where to go from here, it’s taking a toll on me mentally and emotionally!!!!! 

OLDBIKER
OLDBIKER
Please try to remember that Alzheimer's and Dementia is talking, not necessarily your mother. Both of these are debilitating diseases. I visit the Alzheimer's disease unit here in the local nursing home often and what you are describing is nothing surprising,. This makes it so hard to deal with at times and I understand your frustration. Hopefully these tests you mentioned can give you a better idea of what's wrong, and what stage she possibly has. I say this assuming you already know there is something wrong or that she has been possibly already been diagnosed. I don't know this. as of this post.
helpless35
helpless35
@OLDBIKER
No haven’t gotten her tested yet those are the signs she has showing, for months she has refused to be tested, so when I took her to get her blood work done, I pulled the dr aside and asked him what can I do, I am running out of ideas, and she is refusing, and I need help, so he set up a testing at his office for tomorrow, but what scares me now is the last two days, she’s been trying to remember things, and somewhat makes sense, is that normal ??? What happens the test comes back normal??? Than afterwards it all starts again with the forgetting, losing things and misplacing?