Interesting. Along with complete memory blackouts, Alzheimer’s also carries the opposite symptom. Everything looks familiar. Every morning my mother thinks she has seen that morning’s paper before. Every new episode of a show, including a live show or live sports, she thinks she’s seen it already. We drive down an unfamiliar street, she sees a woman walking a dog and says she saw that woman walking the same dog “the last time we were here.”
I find it all very very sad. Trying to live with a broken brain.
I find it all very very sad. Trying to live with a broken brain.
My in-laws were out with some physician friends, they later told my FIL, it looked like M. might have early onset Alzheimer’s. She lived in her house for many years after, then many more in a local facility.
I felt that she was cognizant of the conversation but unable to respond. Total hell for her.
She was a fun and outgoing woman.
She was a Miss Manners and dinner was near formal.
For fun, I would occasionally question a rule.
All food items had a specific direction of flow, so I ask if that was as viewed from above or below to determine the rotation?
She had no answer, I got her!
Sadly it was the Alzheimer’s that had her.
In years past she would have explained the rule and the origin.
I miss her, we had much fun over the years.