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Originally Posted by DAEpperson
Tabs - are you aware of the actual testing process?
Over several visits over 6 to 8 months, memory etc tests are given repeatedly. It leaves little to subjectivity.
And the arisept (sp?) if anything just stabilized her - no reversal.
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In your mom's case I would say the evaluation was right, but that does not always make it so...What I am saying is give it some thoughfull evaluation before coming to a conclusion...there are other possibiliites..especially if this just reared its head in a short order.
I had an Aunt that lived in Worcester MA who was in her late 80's. she would call me up at 3 Am her time and tell me about her lost cat (she didn't even have a cat at that time), and her special peeve was that her DIL and Son were stealing from her..I knew form the get go that her mind was going...the reason for her failing mental abilities was that her heart had slowed down to 30 beats a minute before they put a Pace Maker in..that lack of oxygen caused her brain deterioration which only really started to show up several years later...she finally passed away when she was just about 91...
One interesting thing was that her mental state of mind at the end was an exacerbation of her earlier peculiarities. So one might say she fell into her own paticular madness.