Blocking the door, seeing people by my car in the driveway...
Hasn't been doing that lately though.
Now she literally sleeps 24-48 hours, then up sometimes same. Often times during the awake periods she'll have full conversations, sometimes with multiple people...who aren't there. Some sound like strangers, others relatives(long gone)
The bad days her whole demeanor changes, her face is sunken in, walks like a hunched over b-rate movie monster... and she is a lot more delusional. Spends 24 hours moving(hiding) things...yelling at ghosts she claims are stealing her stuff, asking where all these kids came from, don't their mothers know they're here? Yelling at them to go home.
Lately that isn't as bad as it was...now she occasionally laughs at them, has "quieter" conversations.
She uses rolls of TP, find it hidden all over. Mixes all sorts of things in grocery bags(whatever she finds) and sometimes manages to mix them with cat litter(right from the box).
Man, I could write a book.
Memory care in a nursing home around here is around 8k a month.
It's stressful, as I'm not exactly young either, and being my mom...it's hard to watch the decline 24/7.
I've known and read about others who have experienced it. That it sometimes gets...violent.
If it gets to that stage...I'm out.
We're paying $12k. Where are you?
Good post—what the “political experts” are missing is the weirdness of dementia.
Biden could do just about anything at any moment—without warning.
After a few months of crazy the caregivers become both wacked out and agitated.
This is probably happening now with the senior WH staff.
:-)
P.S. At age 95 my senile mother attacked my father with a knife and wounded him. The police arrived and arrested her. An ambulance took him to the hospital. We were not on site. Even though we were family members it took a “Better Call Saul” junkyard dog attorney more than a month to get the police records released to us.
Hired caretakers were in another room at the time and heard his screams. They were the ones who called the police.
From the police report—upon her arrest my mother was belligerent and said she had done nothing. She also yelled:
“If you don’t believe me, kill me.”
Welcome to crazy-land.