Mon, Aug-25-03, 16:46
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,440
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Plan: low cal, low carb
Stats: 196/145/140
BF:23%
Progress: 91%
Location: Coolum Beach, Australia
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As far as I understand it, it is normal. I too can forget everyday words. Here's what happens when you have Alzheimer's (fromhttp://www.aging-parents-and-elder-care.com/Pages/Age_Dementia_Symptoms.html):
Recent memory loss. Everyone forgets things for awhile, but remembers them later. Dementia patients often forget things, and never remember them. They might ask you the same question over and over, each time forgetting that you already answered it. They don't even remember they already asked the question.
Difficulty performing familiar tasks. Patients might cook a meal but forget to serve it. They might even forget they cooked it.
Problems with language. Dementia patients may forget simple words or use the wrong words. This makes it hard to understand what they want. That can cause an outburst of anger directed at the person they're talking to.
Time and place disorientation. Patients may get lost on their own street. They may forget how they got to a certain place and how to get back home.
Poor judgment. Anyone might get distracted and forget to watch a child closely for a short time. Dementia patients, however, might forget all about the child and just leave the house for the day.
Problems with abstract thinking. Anyone might have trouble balancing a checkbook from time to time, but dementia patients can forget what numbers are and how to use them.
Misplacing things. Patients may put things in the wrong places ... an iron in the freezer or a wristwatch in the sugar bowl. Then they can't find these things later.
Changes in mood. Everyone is moody occasionally, but patients may have fast mood swings, going from calm to tears to anger in a only few minutes.
Personality changes. Patients may have drastic changes in personality, often becoming irritable, suspicious or fearful.
Loss of initiative. Patients may become passive. They might not want to go places or see other people.
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So relax.
Val
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