Recognition

Mom is struggling to recognize familiar things. We had a moment or two of this but two days ago, she took off a pair of pants and proceeded to tell me that she didn't know whose they were but they were not hers and she didn't know where they had come from. I foresaw in that moment the reason why Alz patients occasionally take off clothes or wear inappropriate clothes. No matter how it looks to us 'the normal people' they don't recognize the clothes and who wants to wear something that doesn't belong to them. It's going to be a bit difficult if it happens in a public environment where we can't make a clothing change with ease...

Then yesterday we attempted to go to a movie (sold out) and when we arrived home, mom didn't know where we were and told me this was not our home and it looked weird (or wrong, I can't remember which) every time we came here.

We had company with us and mom spent almost the entire evening being helpful but wondering whose house we were in. I foresee wandering in our immediate future and we are rapidly advancing to the stage of not recognizing people...I am no longer confident that we will make it to the end of the year with mom living with us.

Those impending changes are difficult to contemplate. I know they're coming but the reality of having them here is something else entirely!