I take care of my Mom. At 87 plus she is doing great.
She is less agile - but still walks and can take care of her personal needs. Kegel exercises for decades means no diapers!! Yeah for her and for me as the caretaker
Mom's memory has been badly impaired for the last year or two and gotten worse. it is not the dreaded Altzheimers - her memory is just lacking all over - distant past, past, recent, present.
I tried liquid vitamins and B complex to increase her nutrition intake but it messed up her metabolism and icnreased her confusion etc. As these are not in nature's proportions it just messed with her mind.
I am now trying a green drink that is dehydrated plants. We took it for about 12 days or so and it seemed to stabilize her somewhat - she seemed more oriented and able to focus. I did not reorder soon enough so we have had a lapse of about 10 days.
Today is day 4 since the new order arrived. Today for the first time she started talking about my stepfather and the fact that he could speak many languages. This is a new memory for her and ti came out naturally in the course of conversation. So I started a blog to track how the green drink works.
In the normal course of things she does not remember much about her past - just a few basics that she repeats over and over and does not remember much else. I talk to her every morning about my childhood, her early experiences hoping to get her brain to hook back up. We shall see what this high nutrient green drink will do for her.
My friend Carole came for breakfast today and then she and I left for a meeting. We left at 10am and I got home around 1pm or so. Mum was dressed in pants and sweater instead of wearing her blue house coat that she wears every day. - and I had not said anything to her about dressing as if I do she normallly complains that she is more comfortable this way and it is easier to go to the bathroom. She walked to the mailbox with me for the first time in a long time.
So we shall see how this goes. I started the blog so I can see the changes in her as we continue to take the green drink. I already have her on a mostly organic diet - we drink springwater. She takes vitamin E, Vitamin D, evening primrose oil, coq 10 and probiotics every day. She uses Stevia as a sweetener and does not eat anything with sugar substitutes of any kind only things that have stevia or sugar. She is an insulin dependent diabetic and takes medication for high blood pressure. she uses papaya pills for indegestion most of the time. She walks a lot in the house and picks up dirt from the carpets all day long - she can still put on her own socks. I cut her finger nails and toe nails as she is afraid of cutting herself.
Ok well that is it for our first blog.
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