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Hi,
Dealing with WKS in a family emember is hard, as I'm sure you both know and if you have read the past posts on this group you will know that we all understand what you are going through.
My dad is one of the lucky ones. He was diagnosed with WKS in September 2000 but with good care and loving attneion he has improved leaps and bounds. I still think he should have been kept in a nursing home in Belfast, but his sisters insisted he leave and live with his mother (my mum and he are divorced, and I live in Glasgow so neither of us could care for him). His sisters blame my mum and I for his alcoholism, this illness really does tear families apart as people seek to blame others.
There are dark periods but you just have to keep smiling through them and take hope from the fact that other people have pulled through this and it's not a miracle, just down to loving care and attention.
There is quite a lot of information on the web about this at the moment, I would recommend you look it up and find out all you can about it.
Take care,
Norma
Lianne Ashbridge <lianneashbridge@...> wrote:
Lianne Ashbridge <lianneashbridge@...> wrote:
Hi, im a 19 year old female. My mum has been in hospital for a good couple
of years now. She has been diagnosed with the syndrome. At first i found it
hard to understand because i didnt know much about it. My advice is to
search the web which is what i did. Go on to www.google.com and type in the
words "Korsakoff syndrome".
I found this to be really helpful to find out what my mum is going through.
We are still trying to persuade her to live in a home but she will just not
move. She needs 24/7 attention because of her short term memory loss.
Lianne
Hamilton, Scotland
>From: "pattymack_oamcit"
>Reply-To: wernicke_korsakoff_syndrome@yahoogroups.com
>To: wernicke_korsakoff_syndrome@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [wernicke_korsakoff_syndrome] Questions
>Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:22:27 -0000
>
>To make a very long story short, my 45 year old brother is now in a
>nursing home. They told me he has korsakoff syndrome. I can't seem
>to get much feel for whether this is a permanent thing or not. He
>does well with long term memory, but can't form or hang on to new
>memories. Can someone please tell me more about it, and whther I can
>realistically expect improvement in him? I want to help him, but I
>have no idea how to do that. I am disheartened and depressed, this
>is one of the hardest things I have ever dealt with. I am having a
>hard time gettin much information at all.
>
>Patty
>
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