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lady_t_220Things with the G-ma are not going well. She's degenerated mentally a tremendous amount in just the last couple of days. She's forgotten how her electric chair works, she's forgotten how to take her pills even though she has an automatic dispenser. She's forgotten how to get her pills out the electric dispenser (you tip them out the cup when it opens) she's even forgotten what her lifeline alert buttons does. Or that she was wearing it, actually...
She's also got cellulitis in her legs again, and didn't eat her lunch because she's started forgetting to do that now without constant prompting and someone hovering over her until it's done.
Mum's going to phone the doctor on Monday. She's really inches from needing full-time care as it is, at the rate she's degenerating it's not going to be long before she becomes totally incapable. I mean, this has all happened in the space of a week. She was rotten and vindictive and spiteful before, and certainly incapable and forgetful to an extent, but it's like it's suddenly hit critical mass. Even basic things like eating and taking her meds. She has the sandwich and the pills in front of her but suddenly can't remember what to do with either of them. It's... very weird and disconcerting.
She had a moment of clarity the other night and said to mum "I'm so confused all the time. I'm not going to get better, am I?" Mum said no, she probably wasn't. The G-ma accepted that with surprising equanimity. Yet today she's forgotten all about it again.
She's going to kick up a fucking stink if she gets admitted into hospital though. Or, then again, she would have before. It's hard to say now. She's gone really vague and panicy.
She's also got cellulitis in her legs again, and didn't eat her lunch because she's started forgetting to do that now without constant prompting and someone hovering over her until it's done.
Mum's going to phone the doctor on Monday. She's really inches from needing full-time care as it is, at the rate she's degenerating it's not going to be long before she becomes totally incapable. I mean, this has all happened in the space of a week. She was rotten and vindictive and spiteful before, and certainly incapable and forgetful to an extent, but it's like it's suddenly hit critical mass. Even basic things like eating and taking her meds. She has the sandwich and the pills in front of her but suddenly can't remember what to do with either of them. It's... very weird and disconcerting.
She had a moment of clarity the other night and said to mum "I'm so confused all the time. I'm not going to get better, am I?" Mum said no, she probably wasn't. The G-ma accepted that with surprising equanimity. Yet today she's forgotten all about it again.
She's going to kick up a fucking stink if she gets admitted into hospital though. Or, then again, she would have before. It's hard to say now. She's gone really vague and panicy.
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Date: 2012-02-04 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-04 01:09 am (UTC)Either way, let's say if she makes it to summer we'll be kind of startled.
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Date: 2012-02-04 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-04 01:14 am (UTC)Her biggest thing right now is the drain on her time dealing with it, but there's not a lot we can do about that cause shes the only one the G-ma listens to at the moment.
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Date: 2012-02-04 04:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-04 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-04 08:28 am (UTC)Going to pop in today to visit her.
*mentally prepares herself.
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Date: 2012-02-04 09:09 am (UTC)