Posted on 12/21/2016 9:27:20 PM PST by JimSEA
It’s weird how that mean streak shows up in people with dementia/Alzheimers.
My m-i-l was the same way. She would say things to others and about others that would have left her aghast years ago if someone else had said them. We couldn’t have imagined her changing like that.
I had it roughest. I was not the favorite daughter-in-law and yet due to circumstances I was the one who helped her the most in her declining years.
Your symptoms could be caused by a variety of different things but this is definitely something to get checked out soon.
I suffered a serious head injury early in my AF career it caused some permanent blood flow changes in my brain (Vascular Dementia). I use to joke about it, but it may be catching up with me now that I'm older.
This is interesting and there may be something to it.. My father is not diagnosed w/Alzheimer’s but does show moderate white matter disease on a brain scan. He has short term memory issues and sometimes some paranoid thoughts. This summer I noticed an awful, overpowering smell in his garage. Turned out to be the valve on the car gas tank, which I had replaced. It caused a very mechanical gas/oil type smell. But when I brought Dad in the garage and asked if he could identify the smell, he could not. He even blamed the people next door - that the smell was coming from their garage.
My sense of smell is still the same but I have short term memory loss that is very frustrating. Kind of like your Dad possibly. It’s tough to deal with, particularly when I spend much of my time looking for things I just put down.
Excessive neatness as a child can have NOTHING to do with Alzheimer’s. Very few people have genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s. It comes from the environment. There is logically no such thing as a genetic epidemic.
Amazing story. You were a hero.
Both of my parents have/had it. My dad who was a bit crotchety in his last decade before Alzheimer’s, became very mild and sweet for the rest of his life, like a happy toddler.
My mom who has it now will only get out of her comfy chair willingly for three things: to try and get sweet food, to go to the bathroom, or to yell at my kids. She has a need to make up fake rules and bitch at them. Then, when she is in a loving grandma mood, she wonders why they don’t seem to care for her. It’s really sad.
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Loss of sense of smell was usually considered an indication of advancing Parkinson’s.
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Your mom is more like what I had to deal with.
An emotional rollercoaster.
well, I know my father had a stroke in 2011 that definately had an effect on his short term memory. He is very aware of this. He is not so aware of the smell issue that I noticed this summer. Poor dad. :(
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