u/Dangerous-Week7474

Mom knew four languages, Russian as a child, Polish as a pre-teen to young adult and English since emigrating. While her language skills are minimal these days due to late stage Alzheimers was previously speaking more in Polish but now she uses Russian phrases. She hasn't spoken Russian as a daily language since age 5 and while it was the second language in school for years she said she didn't remember any of it. It's odd how Alzheimers has rearranged her brain and the older language skills seem more protected. and have resurfaced a bit

For the past week or so and in particular the last few days, she needs more and more help sitting up and transitioning to her walker. Feels /looks like the aid is doing more and more of the work too. She's already shuffling her feet with small steps and often leading with the same leg. She struggles with turns and must be guided and led. Aids say she seems more frail too. She may have been in stage 7c for about a year but her geriatric doctor confirmed the stage back in April

was told a 3 month wait which has me waiting till November. I'm investing in waiting but have a hard time understanding the lag time

Mom was diagnosed as being in stage 7c some months ago. Lately her transition from bed to walker has become more and more unsteady. I've noticed more than few times a second of imbalance with the aid steadying her as she rises and reaches for her walker. Additionally while she was shuffling before lately she leads with the same foot, takes even smaller steps and will stop at each pivot as if she can't plan her steps

I usually do Pfizer but three years ago I got Moderna and felt run down the day after. This year nothing other than a slightly sore arm. Wondering why this time no side effects. Am i just used to it now?

she has trouble finding the bathroom and recognizing the doors so on her way to the bathroom she'll open up every door along her route including the linen closet. She walked into the aid's room and attempted to squat on the wastebasket. I guess its worsening agnosia and apraxia

Decided to give my mom ice cream in the hopes of increasing her weight or at least stabilizing it. she started out ok but after a while instead of using the spoon to put the ice cream in her mouth she began putting it in the bottle and later attempted to pour it into the bowl. She's showing more evidence of not understanding what objects are for and how to use them. on the plus side she did eat some ice cream before getting distracted

Low premium , high deductible and then sharing the insurance pain in effect making the employee self-insure a percentage of the risk . The HSA account just helps the employee fund it. The downside is unforeseen health costs that. If this is good for the employee its because the employee doesn't intend to get sick and in that case not having insurance would be even better. Been arguing this point with a friend

The goal of HDHP's is to push more costs of health care onto consumers and away from companies. 

I had to replace two appliances almost at once.

First a washing machine which required wiring in a new electric line and getting NYC DOB inspection, only DOB refused to assign a date for the first 30 days and then assigned one a full 30 days further out. When the date came DOB was a no show without advising, then midway through the following day the inspection was marked done without ever showing up.

Follow that with a dishwasher from roughly 15 years ago that based on then code was wired directly into the electricity. On the day of installation the crew said where's the outlet for the plug and threatened to leave the unit uninstalled with my water turned off. Took quick thinking and good fortune that I was able to have an outlet installed that same day.

I don't hear many of these stories

My mom is declining at a faster rate it seems to me. I saw her on video having trouble executing and planning the steps needed to get to her bed and back. her gait was slower than typical and she was shuffling more than her normal self. what's more she reverted to walking sideways with the walker. Made me think of how a baby first learns to walk . she's learning in reverse

Application for renewal came. I assume i can ignore it. Clearly with advanced Alzheimer's she's not driving. I'm assuming any needs for ID at this stage are minimal and can handled via my POA

An issue that's been coming up that I now saw first hand is the difficulty in getting my mom to eat a complete meal. She can still engge in the physical act but she lacks the attention span. She'll take a few bites , gets distracted and get up and attempt to walk away. We remind her to eat but that reinforcement for her failing executive function.
works less and less.

I'm against forced feeding and frankly the situation doesn't call for it. I also don't want to do appetite stimulants. For now I'm suggesting to the aid that if she eats 75% of a meal consider that success. I'm also suggesting we experiment with breaking up the meal so that we make lunch a two session thing.

We've already been at stage 7 for about a year so the change from that time is like night and day but lately it feels like the decline is getting even faster. Mom has lost all executive function, is down to perhaps just five words a day and engages in rocking and other self soothing motions in bed and frequently undresses or tosses her blanket over the sides. She has no idea why she does anything and has started to become very hunched. Her appetite is beginning to reduce as well, she often won't finish lunch.

Is this typical with late stage 7?

First failure happened after 19 years but second happened less than five years later? Do I need to dig further to see if there's another factor such as the toilet rocks or the toilet doesn't mount flush , building shifts or something else?

i had minor electrical work done a month ago and still waiting for the DOB to assign an inspector. The actual inspection is estimated to need less than 30 minutes. I also understand DOB did a recent system migration

For me its my mom's newest stage. For me its what I'm seeing now, the utter restlessness and what might be restlessness combined with the total loss of executive function. This means the moment you put her to sleep she bangs on the rails and her legs rock up and down. It also means she'll be eating and will lose focus and go off to take clothes out of the closet with food hanging out of her mouth

We tried something else and it was completely ineffective. Mom grows incredibly restless as the day progresses and has started calling out for her mom and dad. It's sad to see. She can't sit still for one minute. Gets really bad later in the day. Hoping this helps. . She's late stage.

We're using Duane Reade and service couldn't be worse. Need one that handles insurance and delivers

A decade ago it was the pasta sauce, within the past year it was the balsamic vinegar and now I went shopping and in place of their generic EVOO label it was an outside brand , and at a higher price. It's as if the new owners arent' able to maintain the old supply lines the previous owners had in place so one by one they are disappearing.

Reading too many stories. Are the police responsive? I've been to Spain many times but from the news it feels like things may be changing