Such a long, long, story so I'll try and make it short. I posted a few messages last summer and then quit. My brother Bryan is in a dementia ward in a long...
Hi Heather. I hope it works out for you and your brother. Currently my mother is taking of course the thiamine and multivitamin. She is on Exelon (which is...
Hello Everyone! Sorry I haven't been in communication lately. One thing, I have really been busy with my Dad. Just the same ole story. Two, and this goes...
To: Everyone Take a moment for yourself. You do deserve it! Whether you are a caregiver or you are struggling with this disease just know you are not alone. ...
Heather, I am just starting out with trying different anti-psychotic drugs with my dad, so I don't have much advice there. He is on Seroquel at night and that...
Note: forwarded message attached. ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today Hello all, I recently found this group while...
Hi Mari. So sorry about your loss and it is a loss of the person you once knew. If it is any encouragement, there is room for improvement so it may get a ...
OH Nora.......this is soooooo cute, thanks for sending Donna....what you say your father has is something a friend of mine on my caregiving emailing site's...
Hi Carol in Ohio: I am Kathy in Massachusetts and my Mom has WKS. She is 64. I won't go into the whole story but it sounds similar to your sister in that she...
Thank you very much Kathy - I am printing this. (Starting a "drug library".) Am having a letter sent to the intake of the Physchiatric Hospital here in...
Hi Heather> Good Luck. I am in Massachusetts, USA. I found that the nursing homes were familiar with it as one of the Alzhiemers type dementias however they...
Thanks for the reply Dave ....I'll put it in my "arsenal" of "ammunition" (list of drugs and letters) that I am going to give to my brothers doctor. Plus I...
Hi All, My Mom is on Effexor,Remeron and recently Zyprexa instead of the Repspiderol that she was taking. (And of course Vit.) All this along with High Blood...
... you once ... it may get a ... support you ... start. Take ... Thanks Kathy, I forgot to say that the Drs. also have confirmed he also has Parkinsons in...
Thanks Rhonda for the info - it's printed and I am giving all these responses to my Brothers doctor and taking them with me hopefully to an assessment at a...
Hi! I for the first time am enjoying Mom's reality. My daughter had a baby March 31. Mom has managed to remember over the last nine months that Corina was...
Hello everyone. My name is Gary and i would like to begin by saying that those of you who are living with this disease[wks] have my sincere and heartfelt...
Hi Kathy, Thanks for your response. So sorry to hear about your Mom. As I've read through the messages here I see that many of the situations are similar to...
Hi Gary, my name is Kathy and I am taking care of my 64 year old mother who was diagnosed with Korsakoff's Syndrome in January of 2003. You are correct in ...
Kathy i thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. You definately helped with the info you gave. I have to tell you that my teacher put 10...
Hi JuLee: My sympathies on the loss of your father. Your mother sounds exactly like mine. My mom doesn't do puzzles but she does crosswords. Everything else...
Gary, You can ask any more questions you have. There are something like 3 or 4 of us who have Wernicke's Encephalopathy here, myself included, but not the...
Oh but Kathy ....if you take it private then the rest of us won't have the benefit of "hearing" about it. I read with great interest about your mom. She...
Not to worry. I intend to share with the group, just wanted to mention it to JuLee since she had e-mailed me privately. Unfortunately it looks like I am not...
Hello Everybody! Hope everyone had a nice Easter today! If it wasn't for the one above I don't know how we would survive at times. I'm coming back to the...
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