I'm wondering how to deal with it better. My heart is so broken right now. I'm 32 and my mom is 73. She was diagnosed with Dementia about 2 years ago. She wondered off while I was shopping in Kmart. The cops found her 2 miles in the opposite direction of our home. She's also a insulin dependent Diabetic. She still can give herself her needle and meds, but I watch her and all the locks have been changed to key entry. Her attitude has changed so much. She is verbally abusive at times and it is so hard to hear her deny me. I'm the only child. I recently got married last June and I had such a hard time trying to get her ready to go that morning. On my wedding video she called me one her sisters whom are deceased and it is so heartbreaking for me to watch her to go through this. The Mom I know and love so much is disappearing in front of my eyes. I refuse to put her in a home until she needs to be. Somedays it's wonderful like it use to be and somedays I can only cry. She's on low doses of Aricept and Namenda. How do you keep her mind stimulated cause she doesn't want to do anything but go up to our 2nd floor apt with her older sister and her sister confuses her more. She comes back looking for my dad, whom is deceased, she start talking about school of course that was over 55 years ago so I don't know how to respond to her.

Sincerely,
Missing her Mommy!
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(Janelle)