It happened rapidly with my mom. Like out of nowhere. It’s not like with Dad
So dad had meningitis when he was around 34. This caused short term memory problems. I wouldn’t say severe, but noticeable and frustrating for him. I’d say in his early 50’s, it was noticeable that he couldn’t multitask. He also couldn’t come up with or follow through with ideas to manage this memory and multitasking issue. Extremely frustrating when we worked together for the better part of a decade. He was involved and a big problem. I could not get him to take a more suitable role. This made my workload much more taxing. Having to constantly check in on him, utilizing apps, reminders, even a live tracking system in his vehicle to make sure he was going where he was supposed to be going.
Anyway, fast forward to current day in his later 60’s and trying to let him be as independent as he can be and kind of operating in the background as much as possible and going behind him without him knowing. It’s difficult to do. Difficult to see.
His cognitive deficiencies as like in groups of that makes sense. Like categories.
For instance, he often cant figure out where to put batteries into things. And that ties into things that come with batteries in them that have a little tab that needs to be removed that is there when it’s new to prevent the battery from making contact until it’s purchased and ready to be used. It’s like he doesn’t see it. Very strange to see the brain kind of fail like that.
Anyway, just venting and killing a bit of time. Maybe some of you have seen stuff like this happen to someone and you can relate.
It happened rapidly with my mom. Like out of nowhere. It’s not like with Dad
So dad had meningitis when he was around 34. This caused short term memory problems. I wouldn’t say severe, but noticeable and frustrating for him. I’d say in his early 50’s, it was noticeable that he couldn’t multitask. He also couldn’t come up with or follow through with ideas to manage this memory and multitasking issue. Extremely frustrating when we worked together for the better part of a decade. He was involved and a big problem. I could not get him to take a more suitable role. This made my workload much more taxing. Having to constantly check in on him, utilizing apps, reminders, even a live tracking system in his vehicle to make sure he was going where he was supposed to be going.
Anyway, fast forward to current day in his later 60’s and trying to let him be as independent as he can be and kind of operating in the background as much as possible and going behind him without him knowing. It’s difficult to do. Difficult to see.
His cognitive deficiencies as like in groups of that makes sense. Like categories.
For instance, he often cant figure out where to put batteries into things. And that ties into things that come with batteries in them that have a little tab that needs to be removed that is there when it’s new to prevent the battery from making contact until it’s purchased and ready to be used. It’s like he doesn’t see it. Very strange to see the brain kind of fail like that.
Anyway, just venting and killing a bit of time. Maybe some of you have seen stuff like this happen to someone and you can relate.
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