Re: Re: A bunch of stuff

July 8, 2008

My dad wasn't in the service, she was a housewife and he was an executive.

She was born and raised in the country in Michigan, until her dad died when

she was 10 and her mom moved them to Detroit.

And yes, for the last several years we've been able to diagnose UTI's by

those behaviors, for sure! As sure as their cultures or whatever they do,

we've known.

She's not incontinent, so she doesn't sit in anything (and those that are,

don't either judging by everything I've seen and not smelled around there -

but it's a very small home with a good resident:staff ratio)...however she's

always been sexually active right up until April when she entered the NH,

and I suppose masturbation is a strong possibility. She's tried to get

involved with men there.

Thanks for the suggestions and thoughts, Sharon, it's always helpful to

learn from the experiences of others.

His,

Sherry

www.owly.net

daughter of , (mis?)diagnosed with AD in 2005, descent slowed by

Aricept; diagnosed with LBD March 2008, in a wonderful NH 1/2 mile from my

house. We're learning to live with Lewy...

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may i ask a few history questions about your mom, where was she born, was

she or your dad in the military and stationed in a 'hot zone' near communist

facitlities, if not, did your mom work what did she do what did your dad

do??? hallucations and restlessness are always a good sign that a uti is

happening and daddys neuroligst said it was partly becuase part of their

mind the sexual inhibitions part is disappearing and they are rediscovering

themselves and therefore introdicuing bacteria which causes infection. some

people just touch, my dad well, lets say he did alot more than that and when

he was excessive he would get a uti, also, does she get changed quickly

after she messes on herslef, sitting in wet diapers or dirty diapers can

cause chronic recurring infections just afew thoughts we learned the hard

way, hugs, sharon

July 8, 2008

Sherry,

i didnt mean to bring up the 'uglies' but my dad suffered greatly from them,

haluccinations, inapporpraite sexual comments actions etc. as the frontal lobe

part of the brain where inhibitions and the knowledge of socail right and wrong

is , dad's frontal lobe had major shrinkage as did several other parts of his

brain noticed after a series of MRI's and CT's done over a period of months, my

daddy was one of those who had horrible hallucinations and i put it to his

military career and the 'top secret missions' that i have since learned he was

on. looking back it explains alot of his what seemed out of this world fears. my

mom is showing signs of lbd but she and i are pretty estranged at this point she

and dad were divorced since 1988 and she threw a fit at the funeral lunch that

she didnt get anything from dads will that i got it all, and that i put

everything in my and my husbands name immedaitely my mom lived in arizona while

daddy donnie and i

lived in florida she convinced his sister and mother and her nieces and nephews

that donnie and i were bleeding my dad dry and that donnie was a leech becuase

he didnt work, noone knew but us what was going on in our house and daddy told

donnie i make enough money to support all of us, you stay home and help sharon

take care of me. so mom had dads family convinced that he was stealing from my

dad. and they believed it until they met donnie at daddy's funeral in ny as he

wanted to be buried by his mom and dad. it really aggravated me, and then mom

made a big scene there demanding taht she inherit everything as she put up with

his 'shit' for 29 years and and now she has the nerve to call herself a widow

who was married for 49 years this year. that just aggravates teh fire out of

me, she didnt do a darn thing to help him when he was down except demand her

alimony. and now she has her will set up as i the only child will only get 50%

and my cousins

her neices and nephesw will split teh other 1/2 . well she made money on good

condo investments based on my dads allimony and their divorce settlement so i

resent that my cousin is teh executer and is in charge of distributing my funds

to me. it really justa ggravetes me, here donnie has taken excellent care of

whom she know calls her dead husband and me and all my health problems and she

wants to be sure taht donnie will only get $500 if i should die before she does,

as i am in 3rd stage kidney failure. she has since told me that she wished i

would just go ahead and die, geez i didnt realize i was so upset taht i m

venting here, sorry you were asking questions and i am venting

i guess what brought this up was were there any issues taht could have provoked

this bad hallucinations and bad days, a phone call from soneone she didnt like

or trust whwen she was well, a letter or card maybe, or a trigger at the

faiclity that could have triggered and old fear, something it is deep rooted and

you have to fish for it. dad one time was very aggaitated and couldnt expalin

to me what it was, and he kept pointing to teh wall *above his tv, by 3 ft, and

it took me 1/2 hour to figure out not only had someon turned off his tv but also

changed his favorite channel teh military channel and he was throwing things and

everything until we figured it out, or it could be as simple as a nightmare that

brought back an old fight that has long since resolved but seemed like it just

happened today. a few thoughts. sorry about the venting hugs sharon

Subject: Re: Re: A bunch of stuff

To: LBDcaregivers

Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 4:19 AM