It's getting to the point now where Mum keeps forgetting where she has put stuff. I think she used to do this, but now she is doing it more regularly. Yesterday she realised that she had mislaid her wallet, so we turned the house upside down trying to find it. We looked in all the usual places with no luck, and I started again. When looking in one particular spot which I had already visited once, I noticed that there was what looked like a pad of tissues. When I looked more closely, it turned out that it was her wallet, but wrapped up in tissue paper. So I gave it to her, and she was very grateful.
Then, less than an hour later, she again claimed that she had mislaid her wallet again. Having briefly looked around me, I headed back to where I found it the first time and guess what? There it was, in precisely the same spot as when I'd found it fifty minutes earlier.
I know that it is the dementia, but it is becoming harder and harder to continue to be patient and I should accelerate our search for a long-term solution...
TTFN.
