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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Alzheimer's / August 2004RE: I thought it couldn't get worse...Thank you!!!!
I talked with the nursing home this morning. The psychiatrist thinks Mom has depression induced psychosis. I don't have a clue, but they're tapering off the anti-psychotic drug and concentrating on anxiety and depression. The nurse practioner thinks it will be better if I don't visit for a few days. That was already running around in my mind. I won't go back until Monday unless they call me for an emergency. I'm looking for another support group, but there's not much here in my town. I'll check with the ALZ office in Atlanta and, of course, I'll hang around here. Thank you so much. You are a terrific bunch of folks!!!!!!!!! Becky Becky, where do you live? I was born and raised in Georgia. Gwen > I talked with the nursing home this morning. The psychiatrist thinks Mom has > depression induced psychosis. I don't have a clue, but they're tapering off the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Becky >Becky, where do you live? I was born and raised in Georgia. >Gwen I'm about an hour northeast of Atlanta near Lake Lanier. Where were you born? Becky Becky, I was born in Dodge County (near Eastman, Dublin) and was there except for 6 months in the 10th grade, then graduated from Chester High School (11 grades in 1945). We moved to Savannah where I met and married my husband and where my daughter graduated from high school,and she went to college at Brewton Parker, moved around to Wisconsin, Florida, Missippi, and back to the Atlanta area for 20 years (Decatur & Conyers). Our son went to North Georgia College for a year. Then we retired to Lake County, Florida in 1989 and lived there until May of 2000, when we moved to Montgomery, AL. where our son lives. Grayson died in March 2001, so I am very happy to be near my children. Gwen > >Becky, where do you live? I was born and raised in Georgia. > >Gwen > > I'm about an hour northeast of Atlanta near Lake Lanier. Where were you born? > > Becky Gwen--- It doesn't seem that that much time has passed since Grayson's passing.. You have been such a great help to this group.. and have given so much wise advice..Thank you On Tues, I am taking a chance on a trip to NJ---great fare and daughter's birthday-praying that all goes well & Don doesn't act up....he's pretty docile now, Hope he sleeps most of the way as he does here... Fingers crossed;;;;;;; Florence Florence, thanks for the kind words. I don't post as much as I did previously. There are others who give such good advice and information that I don't think there is anything that I could add. But I do still read; too much of a habit to break by now. Hope you will have a wonderful trip for your daughter's birthday and that Don will do well on the trip also. Gwen > Gwen--- > It doesn't seem that that much time has passed since Grayson's [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Florence >Subject: RE: I thought it couldn't get worse...Thank you!!!! >From: wcpi46@aol.com (WCPI46) [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >the >anti-psychotic drug and concentrating on >anxiety and depression. I have heard that psychosis is common in the elderly when going through depression so your Mom is not alone in that. Do they feel that your Mom needs to have a few days to get used to being there and depending on people who are not you? So that when you come and then leave again, she doesn't feel so panicky? I've heard of that same approach being tried with children who are placed in institutional settings such as boarding schools for autistic or mentally or behaviorally challenged children. I guess it gives people a chance to become attached to the setting they are in. ___ "All of our customers make us happy, some when they arrive and some when they leave." >common in the elderly when going through >depression so your Mom is not alone in that. Do they feel that your Mom needs >to have a few days to get used to being there and depending on people who are >not you? Yes, in fact I stayed away for a few days after she was first admitted. Didn't seem to help much, but she wasn't this bad. I know I'm doing all I can do. I just need to leave it up to them. Still, I want to rush out there since I feel no one can take care of her the way I do. I'm trying. Becky |
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