I think my Granny's lost it...

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:59pm

She had a few bad health problems recently. She had a cist on her liver, really low blood pressure and platelet levels, and she had sore on her legs. Not good. Anyway, she was released from hospital and now she is on the road to recovery, physically. However, we all think she's got Alsheimer's or Demensia or something. We sent her to do some mental tests. She said that JFK was the President and couldn't remember words they asked her to remember or anything.. Among other things. What to do?

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:04pm

Aw, that's sad. Hopefully, everything turns out fine in the end.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:04pm

I'm sorry, I know how you feel and it sucks.

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:05pm

Consider talking to a nutritionist. Sometimes a change in ones diet can affect the way our mental outlook is. Also - if she is on new medication - it could also not be mixing together correctly, or even might need to be balanced out by diet again.

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:06pm

My Grandmother was having similar problem and we had the same fears. Upon being examined, it turned out that an excess of fluid around her brain was the cause of the problem. She now has a shunt and that's pretty much fixed it.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:10pm

Just a few weeks ago my grandfather was experiencing the same thing. He thought it was 1980, even though I was in the room with him, and he recognized and remember me, and I wasn't born until 1982. The assumption was Alzheimer's, but after further examination discovered he had a small hole in his lung (which collapsed later that day) and the dementia was related to the bodily stress of oxygen depravation. He's at a nursing home in recovery at the moment and actually doing really well, he should be going home pretty soon.

You just never know. Two weeks ago all thought we were nearing the end and he'd be in the nursing home with severe dementia for the remainder of his life and now he's just fine.

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:13pm

Her husband died about 8 years ago, but she's not alon in her house. She was in hospital for 3 or 4 weeks, which probably didn't help this, but if she hadn't been, she'd be dead.

My great granny was fit and active and perfectly lucid until she died, age 96. My granny is only 76.

[wexy]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 7:51pm

Older people getting really disoriented in the hospital.
My Dad who's 88 went into the hospital for a stent procedure. He didn't remember being there, was kicking the nurses and asked me "What am I ? A snake?"

Once he got out his mental status cleared so that when the social worker asked him "Where did you come from?' He replied "My mother and father had a good time and there I was."

Two weeks out of the hospital his mental status is normal.
Hope all goes well with your Grandmother.