Difficult Behaviours

Oh boy, were they that!!! I wish so much that I had known then all I know now. How I wish I had known not to correct her, to just play along, to not try to make my mother do anything.

I thought Alzheimer’s was bad, but this late stage Parkinson’s where my sister is now, and now with demeniia, can you imagine? Just imagine not being able to walk and the confusion sets in. From my research lately it’s Lewy Body dementia that seems to go along with late stage Parkinson’s, and I’m seeing the difference with my sister. It’s like there’s moments of complete clarity and then delusions or hallucinations and building terror. I had to stop my weekly phone calls because they were only seeming to make her confused, especially as I could only call when I got home from work, and by then sundowning, which I remember so well from my mother’s Alzheimer’s, had begun. I will go visit my sister this weekend, for what may well be the last time.