Alzheimer’s

[Henk]

Originally Posted by JugBR

my mother have alzheimer, she is fighting the disease and if you see her, she looks like pretty good, theres only a few moments shes lost the memory, but shes allright.

for me the best way to treat this deasease is love. you guys would think im talking BS but is not. i never pass 1 day without says i love her, and take her to rides, put her in movement and incentivates her always to be independent and make many soft activities. shes 71, but you might think shes 50 if you look her. im proud of her.

you know, i dont know nothing about medicines and the progress of researches, i just kikck the sadness out and try to live everyday more funny as possible with her. thats my message.

So true mate.

[Messy1]

FLYBOYJ, you have my sympathies. Sorry to hear this happen to anyone.

This I think is the worst disease you can have. My grandmother had a series of strokes, but she was diagnosed with alzheimers as well. It was about the saddest thing I have had to go through so far in my life to see this woman I had so much love for and whom I had learned so much from start to slowly slip away from us. I do consider it fortunate that she died of heart failure before she was totally lost to lost to us. Over the course of the years after she was diagnosed, she started to change, she would say mean and hurtful things to her family. The woman I knew barely even swore. I am very thankful that she passed away while she still could remember all of our names, and her lifetime of memories, and before she lost herself totally.

[FLYBOYJ]

Thanks folks!

Right now I'm in Kingman Az visiting my parents - my dad has little short term memory - he forgets why he went into the next room. It's funny, when it comes to money he's as sharp as a tack, no one is cheating him when he goes to the store!

What's funny is re remembers things 30 and 40 years ago - he knows he has problems and been real good about letting my mom handle things. All we could do is make things comfortable for him in his last years.

[Erich]

Joe

yes just make him comfortable and enjoy him in all ways.........

both my folks-in-laws are going through the very painful loss of short term memory, they pull things out of the hat when they were kids clear up to about 10 years ago. We have present conversations and then it is brought up again 5 minutes or less and then too often repeated.........specific details of the present are easily forgotten, doctor apts., medications, too soon we will have to have their drivers license pulled .............. very scarey at times.

~ Just give them the dignity they deserve and try to act like it is all new with their questions.

it's tough

E ~

[JugBR]

Originally Posted by FLYBOYJ

Thanks folks!

Right now I'm in Kingman Az visiting my parents - my dad has little short term memory - he forgets why he went into the next room. It's funny, when it comes to money he's as sharp as a tack, no one is cheating him when he goes to the store!

What's funny is re remembers things 30 and 40 years ago - he knows he has problems and been real good about letting my mom handle things. All we could do is make things comfortable for him in his last years.

its nice hear that beside his problem he still being very sharp in some stuffs like deal with money and past memories, its a great deal he keeps that shape man !

ps: sometimes another brain degenerative diseases lighter than alzheimer are confused with alzheimer by docs. the blurs in brain tissue sometimes makes docs diagnostic alzheimer but its not. my advice for you mate:

dont allow doctor full your dad with manny drugs. if a doc is giving too much drugs for him, just quit and search another doc. i had a very unpleasant experience with a guy who was giving a huge amount of drugs to my mom, we quit the MF and then she came back to walk and remember things more easily.

just an advice by my own experience ok ?

[FLYBOYJ]

Originally Posted by JugBR

its nice hear that beside his problem he still being very sharp in some stuffs like deal with money and past memories, its a great deal he keeps that shape man !

ps: sometimes another brain degenerative diseases lighter than alzheimer are confused with alzheimer by docs. the blurs in brain tissue sometimes makes docs diagnostic alzheimer but its not. my advice for you mate:

dont allow doctor full your dad with manny drugs. if a doc is giving too much drugs for him, just quit and search another doc. i had a very unpleasant experience with a guy who was giving a huge amount of drugs to my mom, we quit the MF and then she came back to walk and remember things more easily.

just an advice by my own experience ok ?

No problem Jug -

We actaully changed doctors about a year ago because of that - he was taking about 12 different meds - we demanded and received an accountability of his meds and 3/4 of them went away. Not only did he feel better but he was saving money as well.

[FLYBOYJ]

Originally Posted by Erich

Joe

yes just make him comfortable and enjoy him in all ways.........

both my folks-in-laws are going through the very painful loss of short term memory, they pull things out of the hat when they were kids clear up to about 10 years ago. We have present conversations and then it is brought up again 5 minutes or less and then too often repeated.........specific details of the present are easily forgotten, doctor apts., medications, too soon we will have to have their drivers license pulled .............. very scarey at times.

~ Just give them the dignity they deserve and try to act like it is all new with their questions.

it's tough


E ~

Thanks erich - that's about were we're at right now.

[Henk]

They tested people with Alzheimer's and they found if the patient stress or is not busy with something the Alzheimer's get worse and progress faster.