In Jan my MIL with dementia had minor wrist surgery after which she pushed
on the location of the stitches to the point that the Dr had her arm casted
to prevent her messing with the area where he did the surgery. The cast was
a whole new mess that lasted for months, 24 hrs a day- What's this? My arm
hurts, I need to go to the Dr, etc, etc etc.  The cast has now been off 3
months and the arm issue is slowly fading into the forgotten. We are down to
about 3 mentions a week that something is wrong with her arm.

This new repetitive behavior consists of dabbing and digging for gold in her
nose, every minute of every waking hour for weeks now. She is going thru
boxes of Kleenex. We know she has post nasal drip (there is almost always a
physical reason for any new repetitive behavior) but the drip hasn't
responded to any of the 4 antihistamines we've tried so far. We've got a
call into the Dr for some other suggestions but this now seems to be at
least as much a bad habit as a physical problem.

It's really weird to watch someone who would never have touched her nose in
public when she was unaffected by AD now rooting with intensity every moment
she isn't occupied doing something else. I know I should be grateful that
this repetitive behavior is just her picking her nose and not something much
worse, but I'm really having trouble finding comfort that this is a
relatively minor problem. This disease never stops causing problems or
grief.     AW