angelbear,

My mom sounded like that too. Every day she would tell me she didn't forget anything but couldn't remember that I was there everyday and I've brought the kids by several times. She askes all sorts of questions and every day I tell her the same thing. Sometimes I want to make a tape and put it into her tape player and play it while she's sleeping so maybe when she wakes up she would know. Right now she's doing better on her aricept but there are times when I repeat myself 3-5 times a day.
Let me ask you something. If you were to have a patient that absolutly refused to believe that they forget and have dementia how do you handle them. Sometimes my mom and I get into the worst arguments over why she's living with me and how she has vascular dementia and she often forgets. Sometimes they're over the reason she's not allowed to use the stove if I'm gone. She says I'm calling her stupid and treating her like a baby. So whatis a good way to approach the subject without an arguement?

well mom is seemingly slipping since they took her off the aricept. I think her days make me chuckle more and more! So I thought I'd share it with you.
Yesterday we went fishing and left my mom with my MIL. She was insistent that we went to a farm--honesly I have no idea why! When we got home she was sleeping and we cleaned the fish and got them ready and so on. Today we went over to my IL house and ate fish. My mom picked up the largest piece of fish and says, "wow, look at this chicken that's the freshest and boniest meat I've ever seen." I told her it was fish and she thought for a second and looked at my FIL and s tated, "well, she says it's not chicken, but it tastes like chicken and looks like chicken and it sure is fresh!"