Re: Millie doesn't know where the toilet is/CAROL!

[Guest guest]

Hi Carol,

Your shock brings back many memories. This has gone around the posts many

times during the last several years. It is an LBD thing. They can not recognize

the toilet. Some have brought up to put a dark floor rug around the toilet, it

may help to find it. Their visual spatial awareness is off. Several years ago I

came on here freaking out, because my husband did not recognize a toilet anymore

and was getting out of bed and taking a few steps and letting loose on the

bedroom floor. Giving him a urinal didn't help at all. He never held it in the

right place to catch the pee. He would also walk into the bedroom drop his pants

and sit on the edge of the bed and let loose.

It seems like a decline to you since it came suddenly, but it varies with all

LBDers as usual. For my husband, it went from knowing the toilet to gradual

mishaps now and then to always having a mishap. I was in tears having to get up

at all wee hours of the morning to carpet clean and change the bedding from him

sitting on the edge of the bed. I finally purchased a plastic runner to place on

the bedroom floor where he often peed.

Because I was always bringing this up I remember many coming on saying they

have had the same problems and finding out it was a visual spatial thing. The

advice was as above place a dark solid color rug around the toilet floor to off

set it from the other color of the toilet, so it can be found. I did the rug on

the floor around the toilet after the advice and I would take him into the

bathroom and show him the rug, so he got familiar with it to find the toilet. It

worked for a while, but several months later I had to bring him to the toilet,

he could no longer walk.

Good luck. I don't think it is a UTI, but it wouldn't hurt to have that

checked.

Jan

adhd5464 wrote:

Millie has taken a real nosedive.

Doesn't know where the sink is, toilet, or closet.

Did a rapid decline happen to any of you veterans?

This may also be the result of the fall she took in the tub.

Have you guys seen rapid declines?

Carol

Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

[Guest guest]

Carol, I forgot to mention, because of the lack of spatial awareness I fogot to

mention that sometimes the dark rug seems to look like an open space to drop

into and they are afraid to step in that space. Too dark could be a problem, get

a solid color that off sets it from the toilet.

Janet Colello wrote: Hi Carol,

Your shock brings back many memories. This has gone around the posts many times

during the last several years. It is an LBD thing. They can not recognize the

toilet. Some have brought up to put a dark floor rug around the toilet, it may

help to find it. Their visual spatial awareness is off. Several years ago I came

on here freaking out, because my husband did not recognize a toilet anymore and

was getting out of bed and taking a few steps and letting loose on the bedroom

floor. Giving him a urinal didn't help at all. He never held it in the right

place to catch the pee. He would also walk into the bedroom drop his pants and

sit on the edge of the bed and let loose.

It seems like a decline to you since it came suddenly, but it varies with all

LBDers as usual. For my husband, it went from knowing the toilet to gradual

mishaps now and then to always having a mishap. I was in tears having to get up

at all wee hours of the morning to carpet clean and change the bedding from him

sitting on the edge of the bed. I finally purchased a plastic runner to place on

the bedroom floor where he often peed.

Because I was always bringing this up I remember many coming on saying they have

had the same problems and finding out it was a visual spatial thing. The advice

was as above place a dark solid color rug around the toilet floor to off set it

from the other color of the toilet, so it can be found. I did the rug on the

floor around the toilet after the advice and I would take him into the bathroom

and show him the rug, so he got familiar with it to find the toilet. It worked

for a while, but several months later I had to bring him to the toilet, he could

no longer walk.

Good luck. I don't think it is a UTI, but it wouldn't hurt to have that checked.

Jan

adhd5464 wrote:

Millie has taken a real nosedive.

Doesn't know where the sink is, toilet, or closet.

Did a rapid decline happen to any of you veterans?

This may also be the result of the fall she took in the tub.

Have you guys seen rapid declines?

Carol

Welcome to LBDcaregivers.