Mom, of course, is a mess tonight on her first day back to the memory ward. Her meds are better, as long as she gets them in an accurate, timely matter. Pray with me for a peaceful night for her and the rest. She will settle down in a day or two hopefully. 🙁 #EndALZ
Author: Mark Applegate
Four Corners
Posted 12/24/18 Football and/or basketball fans…here is an analogy for you on us getting treatment for mom’s Alzheimer’s. Football fans…we are passing toward the sidelines to stop the clock. Basketball fans…we are running four corners. We are trying to stall, along with millions of men and women including the Sweet 17, until a miracle cure…
Syrupy Sadness
Posted 12/23/18 Another good day for mom. Still anxious as all get out, but better than bad. Tomorrow is a critical care team meeting. I am praying that she can be reintegrated back into her old facility within the week. Christmas isn’t the same with mom in her present situation. Two years ago Christmas was…
Mush
Posted 12/23/18 Had a solid visit with mom today. She was very anxious when we got there and didn’t eat squat…but the visit wasn’t bad. We brought in her portable keyboard and she figured out a few songs. I visited with her treatment team a little and it looks like we are getting closer to…
Moon Full of Anxiety
Posted 12/22/18 So, on full moon night it was a train wreck for mom at the behavioral health hospital. Now 2 days of much better reports. We are bringing her electronic piano today. That should make her a happy camper, at least for a while. I used to think that those that thought full moons…
Coastering to a Stop
12/20/18 Roller coaster ride with mom continues. All reports are that she had a good day, Yesterday was also good…looking up. But they further tweaked her meds again just in time to have a terrible visit with Pam and John tonight. Brain meds on a “normal ” brain are hard enough. Working on the chemistry…
Less Bird Woman
Posted 12/19/18 late Had a pleasant visit with mom today. She seems more lucid and, although the quantity and quality graph of her words go in opposite directions, it was nice that she was talkative. Her words were many, not unlike a slightly Nyquilled 3 year old. They were generally all full words too, not…
Mom’s Diagnosis
Posted 12/19/19 “There is age-appropriate involution with expected changes of ventricles and sulci, cisterns are not effected. There is no intraparenchymal area of restricted diffusion, mass effect or midline shift. Craniocervical junction is unremarkable. There is findings of partially empty sella. Orbits and paranasal sinuses are unremarkable. There are confluent (re: merging together…this is not…
I Want a Hippocampus for Christmas
12/18/18 I am a brain nerd. I have always been a brain nerd. I love to think about the irony of using my brain to study it. Two of my favorite books in my readings in 2018 were https://smile.amazon.com/When-Air-Hits-Your-Br…/…/0393330494 and https://smile.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Lif…/…/ref=sr_1_2… . (Smile.amazon.com lets you donate a small part of your purchase on Amazon to a charity of your choice)…
A Smaller, Bigger Room
Posted 12/16/18 Visited mom at the geriatric behavioral health hospital yesterday and today. She was less anxious this afternoon. It is certainly not enriching in the most generous definition, but she is safe and they are working on her meds. We sincerely hope to have her back where she was before Christmas. She said (between…