I got tired of eating meatloaf day after day from Costco and decided to go to the  nearby Thai restaurant.  I had been there a couple times although a couple years before.  I have no idea of what the dishes are but picked out a steak concoction.  I got it home and it amounted to the usual warmed up vegetables usual to Asian dishes.  Most were not very warm so they must have gotten them out of the refrigerator.  Still ok but the entire amount of food was something Kay could not eat.  Large, and meat.  I felt so bad that I got up and took the scooter over to Fred Meyer's for something she could eat.  Good thing  I did because she was hungry and ate it all.  This morning I prepared for her a number of things which she didn't eat at all.  So this is the reason she was so hungry at dinner time.

Do pills help dementia or are they a scam?

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The last two days Kay has got over wondering what has happened to her mind. She has settled down and seems normal for her condition.  I talked briefly to a woman at the Fred Meyer coffee shop today about her grandfather and his dementia.  I suppose she wanted to compare their conditions.  From the brief time we talked it seems he is in a condition where he can not take care of his personal cleanliness.  Kay doesn't seem to have that problem except that I have to remind her to take her baths. I asked the friend what medication he was taking and she said he was taking 7 pills.  SEVEN PILLS?  Unbelievable! I have had two doctors who off the record doubted  pills   help dementia and is pretty useless.  No one claims to cure dementia or Alzheimer's.  The only thing they "think" might happen is it slows the dementia down.  How do they know it is even slowing the dementia down?  There doesn't seem to be any way to compare that in my opinion.  You give the pills and compare it to the previous  time but this time it can  be different and not comparable..Sometime doctors give pills because they give the loved ones comfort and not because the doctor thinks it will help.  I think I did the right thing because Kay is just losing her memory and doesn't have any of the other bad things associated with what may be side effects of drugs. . 


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Dementia doesn't go away

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Kay's dementia  didn't get any better  as the day wore on. I took her to Fred Meyer's for lunch at the deli bar. Things seemed as if she was somewhat better.  But later in the day she came to me in the kitchen and told me she couldn't think. She was quite distraught.  Usually I expect these bad times to improve or disappear later in the day.  But this one doesn't get any better.  This is real worrying if it doesn't get better sometime during the day.  In this condition she wants to be near me and to talk with her.  What else can I do?   In that case I don't want to do anything else.

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