And we have a diagnosis.....

 Well as of the second my 72 year old mother has been officially diagnosed with Dementia. It is literally one of my worst fears coming to fruition. This is something I am coming to terms with. I am trying to tackle it as best I can by controlling the things I can control and figuring out the rest as I go. Making plans to make lists and such is how I am handling it. 

    I had already taken over her medication and how she takes it because the way she was doin it was a nightmare and gods know if she was actually taking them. So at least now we know if she did or not. Making it a routine to have them on the counter for her in the morning for when she wakes up. 

    routine is going to be the name of the game from now on. I want to try to get her to get into the habit of maybe walking for 30 minutes a few times a week to start. I also need to tackle the food that she is eating as that is also supposed to help but for right niw I am just working on learning as much as I can and observing her so when we see the geriatric doctor I can answer as much as I need to when she can't and they ask. 

    I feel like it is much later than it is but I also have a lot on my mind. Kinda went to bed prematurely with the intention of trying to get up early to see if mom would walk on the treadmil in the morning. I just feel like there is so much to do and get done and I need to do it all now but the reality of it all is that I can't and that is ok. I am only human. I am, however, doing the best I can and for right now that is the the best I can do.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

 Dear sister, You remeber that time that you said you weren't going to let me take advantage of mom and you said how I pick my friends over my family...? Ya wanna know why..? Because when I was a kid and I wanted to have my sister play with me during the summer swimming, playing cards, whatever, but you never wanted to. In fact I ended up playing uno by myself with my teddy bear. Yes I knew at the time how stupid it was and I knew all the cards in the hand but you know what; I DIDNT HAVE ANY ONE ELSE TO PLAY WITH!!!!! All you wanted to do was watch tv.  As we got over and you brought your friends arounf the house to hang out and I would hang out with you all because some of them were my friends too you would tell them "oh don't mind her, she's a scorpio". You would do this all of the time in front of me and them.  So explain to me how when those are the majority of a persons memories growing up with their big sister who was always a fucking jerk to them, why they ...
Read more

Mentally Unhealthy

 This past month has been super rough. $700.00 in bills that I avoided until just a few days before they were due. Figured out the number and took a loan.... all because I got covid and didnt work for 2 weeks. I feel lucky to have gotten some pay for what was missed but it was just to much I missed.  So for the past week or 2, alcohol blindness(like time blindness in ADHD people such as myself.), I have been using alcohol to drown out these feelings that I was haing. Mostly it was the stress of having to deal with it all and was I ok with not paying 4 credit cards at once or sucking it p and getting a loan. rando thought: I think the sudden death of my father has caused me to want to control everything even though I hate it but I have a need to know whats going to happen. this thought was brought to you by:  Me trying to plan out the next 2 weeks and when I will be at Oz's house and when I could have him out here.
Read more

thinking

 my mind is always wondering. There is always something going on inside of it.Or at least theats what it feels like. Tonight is no exception. I need to get off this one pill because I think it might be the cause of the food issues I have been having. I recently, like yesterday, figured out that i have a dry mouth as one of the side effects. I do not nkow which one right now but I did google things, cause google is "always" right lol.  This is the thing I hate. I am tired but not tired enough to go to sleep, Last night i ws up till 4 a.m. and only got about 4.5 hours of sleep. I feel that I have done pretty good today considering that. I watched some of The Walking Dead But then I was struck with the urge to clean my room so i did that. I fel great about that because the room isn't so cluttered. . Maybe tomorrow I will set up the play station and take a shower. I need to shower as well. damn it now i need to make a list of stuff to do tomorrow but also |I need to ice my ba...
Read more