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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, there are services that can take her to an appointment.Has she signed a medical release so you can speak with Drs? If so, you could face time into session or see if you can set up a 5 minute debrief with a nurse. you can also pay extra for a nurse instead of an aide to take her to appointment.

The biggest mistake I made was sacrifice my health to please an aging, angry and explosive mother. It wasn't fair to my children or spouse either.

Is she on meds for outbursts and anxiety? If not, that may make it hard to keep anyone willing to work for her.[/quote]

Yes. She is on meds. Frankly, she’s always been a screamer so it’s not just the dementia. She’s only screamed at me once in two years and that is pretty good. Her eyes glaze over and she seems to be having an out of body experience and doesn’t appear to know what she is saying or recall it later.

My therapist thought she was borderline as in a personality disorder.

I got her to a psych and meds are amazing!

She is usually ok unless my sister upsets her. My sister upsets and causes anxiety for everyone in the family…they might have the same mental illness.

After reading all of your posts, I am not going to participate in this knee surgery.

My mother had PT a while ago and said it helped and then said it did not. She probably stopped doing the exercises and this is why her knees hurt.

I can’t imagine her in rehab actually doing anything like exercise, which she claims to dislike.

I am going to take a post above to heart. I’m not letting a dementia patient ruin my health and life any more than she has already.

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