Hi All, Hope you had a good Christmas and New Year! I have enjoyed reading your posts, it is much harder to deal with at this time of year. My dad is in a...
I believe my father has Korsakoff's syndrome, but it's been difficult to get this formally diagnosed. He clearly had difficulty with short term memory...
My father is 52 years old. Our family was close to perfect. I was always very close with my family since I was born. Three months ago my father began to...
My father is suffering from delusions, he is hearing things, he is making up lies that I think he truely believes. He's making strange accustaions of my mother...
Only a doctor (nuerologist) can accurately diagnose if your father has wks. I encourage you to try to get him to one. It may be depression or something ...
mamachuck61@...
Jan 5, 2004 4:10 pm
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Hi everybody, I hope this proves to be a better year for us all, so have a fine 2004! I have been subscribing to this site for a little while, but this is my...
Welcome Steve, I too had a "functional alcoholic" for a father..never ever missed a day of work...and ti was the norm fro him to get drunk only on weekends....
Hi Steve, I read your post and you mentioned you visited a few units in Scotland. The Greencross (Cambuslang) was it the new unit you visited or the old one?...
Hi Steve I have just read your post. My mum is currently in Murdeston Castle being placed there October after a 10 month stay in Wishaw General. I found the...
Boy! do i wish my father was still delusional...at least he was much easier to handle..now he is bitter, angry and confrontational..and frankly frustrating the...
My sincere wishes for a happy new year for all - for moments anyway, and the ability to recognize and savor them! I'm curious...Here in the States, I am...
Ann No she hasn't settled any better at all I don't think she ever will, she doesn't seem to be on the same planet as the people in the nursing home. I went...
Dad is doing really well at the moment but you know how quickly things can change. Since changing his medication he has really settled and hopefully after a...
YES ANN, there is hope...my dad as well was hardly walking and did not rmember anyone or anything. they too changed his meds..not sure what he is on now..will...
Hello everyone! Happy New Year! My Mom complained of lower back pain long before she was diagnosed with korsakoff. She would spend days at a time reclining in...
Yes, Rhonda...it does! That from someone who HAS a "mild" enough case of the disease that they can still somewhat function, it is a royal pain in the $$$ and...
... case of the disease that they can still somewhat function, it is a royal pain in the $$$ and I can only imagine what it must be like for family/friends of...
HI Nora...........yes i am still here all the way in New Zealand. I should apologize for not responding to the posts but there are quite a few on here that...
Pamela, Your mom sounds like she is in the same shape as my mom. Same thing - my mom has pressure ulcers on the heels of her feet also. She has had them for...
I don't know where to begin...my long term love has WKS and will be coming to live with me soon. He is mobile with a cane but has memory and function loss that...
Hi Rhonda...I answered this email last night, took me 1 1/2 hours, and, poof, netzero timed me out of my email and it was lost in internetland before I had...
... Nora, Wow! Not to make light of your condition at all, but the condition aside....with evrything else you've had to endure is enough to make me want to...
... Cynthia Hi Cynthia! Welcome! Thats a new one to me nausea... but for myself, and my daughter who is pregnant, for nausea we mix together powders of:...
Rhonda, I am kindof the oddball of the group. I have had wks since Dec of 1994. Mine was brought on by complications with a gastric bypass surgery. Few...
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