(July 15, 2014 at 9:31 am)Blackout Wrote: Your grandparents sound like really nice people compared to my grandmother, she would curse with hell anybody who was not a Christian Catholic (she'd literally tell that to people face to face when they said 'I have a different religion). Now she has calmed down because of Alzheimer, I guess my family loves her more now that she doesn't curse people randomly.
She still has long term memory though
I'm not a doctor, but that sounds more like my mom. Most people who meet her thinks she has Alzheimers because she repeats and seems to have very little short term memory. However, the doctors are convinced she has had a series of mini-strokes and that is rather different than Alzheimers.
She is capable of learning new things (the new cat's name!) and retains all her memories she had from childhood, and most of her adulthood. She is taking meds to prevent new strokes, and it's clear to me, unlike Alzheimer patients, she is not getting worse.
I clearly have a preference for what my mom has, it's too bad she has a problem, but what she has is treatable to a considerable degree (she does take an Alzheimer's pill, Namenda, and the doctor thinks it will help her brain fix 'some' of the stroke damage.
Maybe things aren't so bad for your grandmother? Hope things work out.
