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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does she live alone?  If so that explains the weight loss.  She may not be able to work the stove. My mom was just eating cereal and microwave meals before we figured it out. She lost a lot of weight.[/quote]

She has her own home but mostly lives with my older sister and her family these days.  I worry that the weight loss and food refusal is something more serious than even dementia?  I don’t even know how to be around her anymore.  She’s just so mean!  Tonight she told me on the phone that my son is fat (he isn’t) and has an ugly face “in my opinion,” she said.  Just out of nowhere. [/quote]

Does she have nice, sweet times too?  Mine does but overall dementia does a number.  The mom I grew up with and was one of my closest confidants and my biggest cheerleader isn’t really there any more through no fault of her own.  I do get glimmers sometimes but it’s the disease that makes them this way.  It changes them and takes away any filter or semblance of social norm awareness.  You have to remember it’s the disease.  Try not to let your current interactions interfere with who she always was- she has no control over this.

My mom has been known to scream at me, she can be incredibly inappropriate in public, she likes to take her shirt off (in private, thank goodness) to show me that she gets hot (not sure what showing me her breasts accomplishes).  She’s called me a witch before, accused me of trying to kill her (when I told her she couldn’t smoke cigarettes anymore).  It’s not her, it’s the disease.  It’s hard to remember that when you’re on the receiving end of something horrible they’re saying.  It’s truly a horrific ailment.[/quote]

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