Haivng cared for my mom with dementia for several years, I now how frustrating and scary it s for the one experiencing it, no matter the reason.
Sometimes she'd look at us as if we're the ones losing our minds, and other times she had enough clarity to know she was the one losing her mind actually saying "My mind is in a constant fog, I'm always confused and I don't know why." At those times, we can see she was scared.
For lack of sleep, sometimes she'd go 35-40 hours without sleep because her brain was on overdrive trying to figure things out. Those were rough times as thelack of sleep compounded problems. Anyone going that long without sleep, wouldn't be able to function much, let alone someone already cognotively impared.
Yeah, it's the *awareness* of being fogged that's worse than the fog itself. I never knew there were all these other, NOT rare, symptoms with menopause, then it wouldn't be *as* scary. And if ANYONE at urgent care had said, "Okay, if you're already having 'menopause brain' then this UTI might make it worse, but it will only be temporary" that would have saved about 3 mini breakdowns last week. Instead I had to find out from a friend's husband who was listening in as I cried about forgetting my address.
Also, for 'real' fun this time...all the men on this board have more estrogen than I do right now. Congratulations!
Also, **** the Blues for scoring while typing this.
Haivng cared for my mom with dementia for several years, I now how frustrating and scary it s for the one experiencing it, no matter the reason.
Sometimes she'd look at us as if we're the ones losing our minds, and other times she had enough clarity to know she was the one losing her mind actually saying "My mind is in a constant fog, I'm always confused and I don't know why." At those times, we can see she was scared.
For lack of sleep, sometimes she'd go 35-40 hours without sleep because her brain was on overdrive trying to figure things out. Those were rough that witimes as thelack of sleep compounded problems. Anyone going that long without sleep, wouldn't be able to function much, let alone someone already cognotively impared.
Yeah, we saw that with our mom as well, as she slipped away. It was an awful thing to watch.
