Early Signs of Alzheimer's [View all]
I not quite sure if this belongs here or in the Health Topic. My SIL is 67. We live very far away from her but she comes to Florida for vacations. My husband has been noticing a dramatic change in her behavior before over the past several years. Forgets things they discussed and then gets mad and says he never said that to her.
I am planning my daughter's baby shower. I called her about it and she said to me that she needed directions because her daughter said "I cannot pick you up because it is out of my way." She not only has a computer (I said Google it), but she also has a GPS. Few days later she called me up about directions, again, so I printed them out from Google and mailed them to her. Apparently, she did not like them and started ranting and raving about how she could never find the place with those directions. She was going to ask her husband, who is 75, to drive her instead. She was SCREAMING at me over the phone. For what it's worth, I am only 2 years younger than she is.
My husband went to a convention in NY and called her daughter to go see her. She told my husband that she told her mother that she WOULD pick her up and drive her to the party, WEEKS ago. Then they both started talking and she told my husband that he didn't know the half of how bad her Mom was getting. Her daughter said that she has tried to talk to her doctor but unless her Mom agrees to it nothing can be done. Perhaps her husband, who lives with her every day, needs to be the person to further this?
I am certainly not a medical professional, but I have worked with Alzheimer's people, some as young as 40s. I also know it evolves over time and the sooner it is addressed the better. My SIL also became a strict Vegan a few years. I wonder if there might be something lacking in her diet that could be causing this? I do know that you need to throughly research what substitutions to make when when going on a strict Vegan diet.
It is all very, very sad. My SIL used to be a very happy, smiling, laughing person, but the last few years her personality has completely changed.
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