So my mother has been getting more consistent in the type of memory slips she is having and I was wondering if anyone here might recognize the pattern as indicating early Alzheimer's or something else. Just today she said to me didn't you have a dog that used to do this certain trick? And I reminded her that it was actually a dog she used to have that did that. Then she said oh yeah, that was Spot....but actually Spot lived twenty years after Bucky who was the one who did the trick. So she'll think a memory of hers is actually something that happened to me. Sometimes she'll claim a memory from my life as something that happened to her. And then mix up the time period, person or pet, the memory actually was attached to. She'll also remember all the details of a grocery item she buys all the time except it's name. Like she'll say you know those potato chips that are the jalapeno flavor and I'll have to help her remember it is Mrs. Vick's brand but she buys them every week. She's hopefully going to be evaluated by a neurologist for memory issues soon, but in the meantime do any of you have any insight?
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I keep threatening to write a book. Insert her in the life of every historically important person in the midwest, during her lifetime! Sort of like Forest Gump...
Captain....see once shit gets That real my decisions will be pretty clear - hard and difficult but not confusing like it is now. My hat is off to you, keep your livaaaaar safe.
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Perseverance, I know....that is why I so much want her to get on the drugs that might slow the decline some but first she has to allow evaluation and admit there is a decline. That part is still up in the air.
I guess what seems weird to me is that the mixup with the dogs wasn't a deficiency in short-term memory or working memory, it was like old memories got rewritten or mixed together somehow.
gee i hope ive been concise enough.