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Don't worry I believed in it, geez they gave up in droves though, lasted 3 days before the "week" was up hahah anyways glad you're getting the last laugh
 
My Mum loved that show, jeez I miss her, Dementia is a prick of a disease!!!
Like @MANLY4LIFE my father in law is going through it now. Last December he was 100% independent, lucid and fine. Then on Christmas day he started "wandering". Now he is pretty much 100% dependent, and sometimes he can't even remember how to uncross his legs without reminders. And the prefrontal cortex has been affected, so he is doing some things now he would have been horrified about before. It's just the disease.

A plus side is he still seems to be enjoying life. Another is, if you don't worry about correcting his stories with the correct "facts", and simply listen, his stories recounting his experiences each day are very entertaining.

Sometimes it's a slow progression like your mum's, and sometimes, like my father in law, it all happens in the fast lane.
 
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Like @MANLY4LIFE my father in law is going through it now. Last December he was 100% independent, lucid and fine. Then on Christmas day he started "wandering". Now he is pretty much 100% dependent, and sometimes he can't even remember how to uncross his legs without reminders. And the prefrontal cortex has been affected, so he is doing some things now he would have been horrified about before. It's just the disease.

A plus side is he still seems to be enjoying life. Another is, if you don't worry about correcting his stories with the correct "facts", and simply listen, his stories recounting his experiences each day are very entertaining.

Sometimes it's a slow progression like your mum's, and sometimes, like my father in law, it all happens in the fast lane.

The absolute worst day ever was when my Mum had to be calmed down after using every swear word known to man.

I was devastated, the only word she'd ever used in front of me was " bugger", sadest day ever!!
 
The absolute worst day ever was when my Mum had to be calmed down after using every swear word known to man.

I was devastated, the only word she'd ever used in front of me was " bugger", sadest day ever!!
No surprise at all there. It IS just the disease Mark. And not something she had any conscious control over.

In some ways dementia seems like a progressive return to earlier and earlier childhood. We think babies are sooo cute, even when they don't know who we are, but have difficulty getting our heads around our parents progressively returning to that state.
 
No surprise at all there. It IS just the disease Mark. And not something she had any conscious control over.

In some ways dementia seems like a progressive return to earlier and earlier childhood. We think babies are sooo cute, even when they don't know who we are, but have difficulty getting our heads around our parents progressively returning to that state.

If you've never been through it you have no idea , when you have been you will NEVER forget it!!
 

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