Guest guest Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Good Evening, A update on my Mom, she cant remember who I am most of the time,or she thinks she is talking to my older Sister.And sometimes she thinks I am still married to my kids Dad,he and I have been divorced almost 15 yrs. now. They say that she hit her really bad,but the forgiveness has been going on just after she fell the first when she broke her hip.So I really dont know,because she seemed fine,she was talking to me,and not my sister,and she was normal,but now is not anymore. I will be flying out to San Diego this Friday,I was going to go Monday,but I am still trying to get the money together to do that. Well I just wanted to let you all know the update on my Mom. Cheryl Just Being Me --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Cheryl, Years ago when my father broke his hip, his dementia got MUCH worse in the rehab center, so in case there are parallels, I'll share some of my experience from back then.. One thing they had changed in rehab was they put him on Zantac. His voice got high and squeaky and he got where he couldn't interpret the things he was seeing. Some of this may have been the aftermath of the inflammation from the surgery to repair his hip, but some of it was indeed caused by the drugs they put him on I'm just saying this as friendly advice to be sure and check what meds she is on. This is what I wrote back then: My Dad's dementia is so variable...Why would his mental abilities roller coaster so? I found out that a consulting doctor at the rehab center without my knowledge put my father on a new medication that was thought would reduce esophagol reflux, Zantac, and the PDR says it can cause all kinds of worsening to dementia, which my Dad experienced while he was in rehab. The drug, I understand, causes the stomach to produce less acid, perhaps providing a larger pool of big molecules posing as neurotransmitters which could get into the blood stream and confuse the brain. Maybe the onset of some of these neurologcal problems could depend on the interaction of environmental (immunological) insults (cumulative over time) and the normal breaking down of the body that occurs with aging. Is anyone studying this sort of thing out there on the net? and I got to the library today where I could look up zantac in the 1995 Physician's Desk Reference. Everything looked the same in the areas I mentioned in a previous post, but this newer version contained the paragraph that led me two months ago to consult with my father's doctor about removing it from his medications, to wit: (Under adverse reactions) Central Nervous System: Rarely, malaise, dizziness, somnolence, insomnia, and vertigo. Rare cases of reversible mental confusion, agitation, depression, and hallucinations have been reported, predominately in severely ill elderly patients. My father had every one of these symptoms, but the doctors at the rehab center were either not following him, or they were attributing all of these to his dementia. They did not remove the zantac when these symptoms occurred. I might also like to add that when I was trained to work in a vitamin store, years ago, they explained that they felt that the gastric difficulties experienced by most elderly people related not to an oversupply of stomach acids but from an undersupply. (Funny, that's not what the commercials say!!) Would this possibility explain why the above-mentioned symptoms occur, as they said, mainly in severely ill *elderly* persons? Might there be a breaking down of the gut membranes that takes place in aging that makes a previously intact gut in a coherent person become a permeable gut in a confused person? Might the malabsorption exacerbated by supplementation with antacids and zantac further compromise digestion, leaving a person malnourished and susceptible to further breaking down of tissues associated with aging? Something to chew on? ========= Cheryl, he improved rapidly when we got him off the Zantac, but this was the beginning of a new approach with him, which did eventually reverse his dementia from late moderate to early moderate and made huge quality of life differences. I don't know if you could pull this off where your mother is, but I COULD control fairly easily what my father ate, and that helped him. From back then: ============== I had noticed when I was in Memphis that his dementia was especially worse after meals, especially ice cream. After listening to a lot of success stories about autistic children getting off wheat and milk, I decided to try it on myself, first. After four or five days off wheat, I ate wheat again and had buzzing in my ears and dropped things with no provocation. Satisfied enough with that, I tried the diet on my daughter. At four years old, she was at a similar developmental place in potty training as a typical 18-24 month old, but the day after she got off of wheat, she potty trained herself. She said, " Mommy, I can hold my TT for now my muscles are strong. " Three weeks later, now, I still can't believe that it is a fait accompli. I decided to try Daddy off of wheat. After one week, his aides told me that for the first time in many years Daddy's stools are normal, his bed has been dry for a week, his diaper was dry yesterday morning, and yesterday morning he asked his aide about something that had happened the day before. He called me many times last week to talk to him on the phone. When I was in Memphis in July, he never even picked up the phone when it was ringing because it seemed that he could not remember what a phone was used for. However, this morning his aide called and told me that when she arrived his whole apartment was covered with excrement and he was terribly upset and confused. I called the day care food services department and found out that they had forgotten to mark him for a special meal and had served him rigatoni (pasta with tomato sauce). Mystery reversion solved. ============ I did find, Cheryl, that when he had gluten accidents, that he no longer could recognize me..so it affected his visual processing. One time I dropped in unexpected and found him unsupervised and eating a roll (gluten) and his aides taunted him about who I was (which irritated me) and he could not figure out who I was by looking at me. A few minutes later, when he heard me talking to him from behind his back, he scolded me by name...so he could recognize my voice, just not me by sight. This was definitely a Gluten thing in his case. There are peptides in gluten that look like morphine to the brain if they are absorbed into the blood before they are fully digested. This happens when you have hyperpermeability to the gut, which can happen with inflammation. His reaction to gluten was so interesting to me because when he was on morphine with his hip surgery, he one time thought I was his ex-wife, and another time thought I was his male junior law partner and carried on a long conversation with " me " about business at the office. He also tried to change the channel on the window using the hospital remote, so he thought the window was a TV. He just couldn't interpret visual things. I'm just saying this to encourage you that your mother's failure to recognize you may have a lot more to do with her visual perception than her memory! At 11:25 PM 3/1/2008, you wrote: >Good Evening, A update on my Mom, she cant remember who I am most of the >time,or she thinks she is talking to my older Sister.And sometimes she >thinks I am still married to my kids Dad,he and I have been divorced >almost 15 yrs. now. They say that she hit her really bad,but the >forgiveness has been going on just after she fell the first when she broke >her hip.So I really dont know,because she seemed fine,she was talking to >me,and not my sister,and she was normal,but now is not anymore. I will be >flying out to San Diego this Friday,I was going to go Monday,but I am >still trying to get the money together to do that. Well I just wanted to >let you all know the update on my Mom. Cheryl > >Just Being Me > >--------------------------------- >Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Good Morning , I want to thank you for the infor. you sent me. The thing is that I havent seen my Mom yet. Because I am unable to get the money for my flight,I have to wait until Friday to fly out there.My ex-husband wont get paid until then,and he is going to pay for my ticket. I am going to look some of this info that you sent me online.Also,I am waitting for the Dr. to call me back. I am going to ask him some questions about her meds,and also ask about kinds of food she is eating. Thank you so much. Cheryl Owens wrote: Cheryl, Years ago when my father broke his hip, his dementia got MUCH worse in the rehab center, so in case there are parallels, I'll share some of my experience from back then.. One thing they had changed in rehab was they put him on Zantac. His voice got high and squeaky and he got where he couldn't interpret the things he was seeing. Some of this may have been the aftermath of the inflammation from the surgery to repair his hip, but some of it was indeed caused by the drugs they put him on I'm just saying this as friendly advice to be sure and check what meds she is on. This is what I wrote back then: My Dad's dementia is so variable...Why would his mental abilities roller coaster so? I found out that a consulting doctor at the rehab center without my knowledge put my father on a new medication that was thought would reduce esophagol reflux, Zantac, and the PDR says it can cause all kinds of worsening to dementia, which my Dad experienced while he was in rehab. The drug, I understand, causes the stomach to produce less acid, perhaps providing a larger pool of big molecules posing as neurotransmitters which could get into the blood stream and confuse the brain. Maybe the onset of some of these neurologcal problems could depend on the interaction of environmental (immunological) insults (cumulative over time) and the normal breaking down of the body that occurs with aging. Is anyone studying this sort of thing out there on the net? and I got to the library today where I could look up zantac in the 1995 Physician's Desk Reference. Everything looked the same in the areas I mentioned in a previous post, but this newer version contained the paragraph that led me two months ago to consult with my father's doctor about removing it from his medications, to wit: (Under adverse reactions) Central Nervous System: Rarely, malaise, dizziness, somnolence, insomnia, and vertigo. Rare cases of reversible mental confusion, agitation, depression, and hallucinations have been reported, predominately in severely ill elderly patients. My father had every one of these symptoms, but the doctors at the rehab center were either not following him, or they were attributing all of these to his dementia. They did not remove the zantac when these symptoms occurred. I might also like to add that when I was trained to work in a vitamin store, years ago, they explained that they felt that the gastric difficulties experienced by most elderly people related not to an oversupply of stomach acids but from an undersupply. (Funny, that's not what the commercials say!!) Would this possibility explain why the above-mentioned symptoms occur, as they said, mainly in severely ill *elderly* persons? Might there be a breaking down of the gut membranes that takes place in aging that makes a previously intact gut in a coherent person become a permeable gut in a confused person? Might the malabsorption exacerbated by supplementation with antacids and zantac further compromise digestion, leaving a person malnourished and susceptible to further breaking down of tissues associated with aging? Something to chew on? ========= Cheryl, he improved rapidly when we got him off the Zantac, but this was the beginning of a new approach with him, which did eventually reverse his dementia from late moderate to early moderate and made huge quality of life differences. I don't know if you could pull this off where your mother is, but I COULD control fairly easily what my father ate, and that helped him. From back then: ============== I had noticed when I was in Memphis that his dementia was especially worse after meals, especially ice cream. After listening to a lot of success stories about autistic children getting off wheat and milk, I decided to try it on myself, first. After four or five days off wheat, I ate wheat again and had buzzing in my ears and dropped things with no provocation. Satisfied enough with that, I tried the diet on my daughter. At four years old, she was at a similar developmental place in potty training as a typical 18-24 month old, but the day after she got off of wheat, she potty trained herself. She said, " Mommy, I can hold my TT for now my muscles are strong. " Three weeks later, now, I still can't believe that it is a fait accompli. I decided to try Daddy off of wheat. After one week, his aides told me that for the first time in many years Daddy's stools are normal, his bed has been dry for a week, his diaper was dry yesterday morning, and yesterday morning he asked his aide about something that had happened the day before. He called me many times last week to talk to him on the phone. When I was in Memphis in July, he never even picked up the phone when it was ringing because it seemed that he could not remember what a phone was used for. However, this morning his aide called and told me that when she arrived his whole apartment was covered with excrement and he was terribly upset and confused. I called the day care food services department and found out that they had forgotten to mark him for a special meal and had served him rigatoni (pasta with tomato sauce). Mystery reversion solved. ============ I did find, Cheryl, that when he had gluten accidents, that he no longer could recognize me..so it affected his visual processing. One time I dropped in unexpected and found him unsupervised and eating a roll (gluten) and his aides taunted him about who I was (which irritated me) and he could not figure out who I was by looking at me. A few minutes later, when he heard me talking to him from behind his back, he scolded me by name...so he could recognize my voice, just not me by sight. This was definitely a Gluten thing in his case. There are peptides in gluten that look like morphine to the brain if they are absorbed into the blood before they are fully digested. This happens when you have hyperpermeability to the gut, which can happen with inflammation. His reaction to gluten was so interesting to me because when he was on morphine with his hip surgery, he one time thought I was his ex-wife, and another time thought I was his male junior law partner and carried on a long conversation with " me " about business at the office. He also tried to change the channel on the window using the hospital remote, so he thought the window was a TV. He just couldn't interpret visual things. I'm just saying this to encourage you that your mother's failure to recognize you may have a lot more to do with her visual perception than her memory! At 11:25 PM 3/1/2008, you wrote: >Good Evening, A update on my Mom, she cant remember who I am most of the >time,or she thinks she is talking to my older Sister.And sometimes she >thinks I am still married to my kids Dad,he and I have been divorced >almost 15 yrs. now. They say that she hit her really bad,but the >forgiveness has been going on just after she fell the first when she broke >her hip.So I really dont know,because she seemed fine,she was talking to >me,and not my sister,and she was normal,but now is not anymore. I will be >flying out to San Diego this Friday,I was going to go Monday,but I am >still trying to get the money together to do that. Well I just wanted to >let you all know the update on my Mom. Cheryl > >Just Being Me > >--------------------------------- >Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Cheryl, What a nice ex to buy your ticket! You wont find anything on the dietary intervention for dementia unless it is my own tracks! I know of another lady who tried this (and epsom salts therapy) on her father who was wheelchair-bound in a nursing home and he had not talked for about a year, and he got strong enough that he started pushing his wheelchair around the nursing home and he started talking again, but only in his native language. He was in a country where that wasn't what everybody else was speaking! Mainly, though, for my dad, this yeilded a huge quality of life improvement, which is why I did it. When he had gluten infractions, he also would start wandering and didn't have a clue who he was or where he was going. In fact, one night after such an infraction, he was found wandering stark naked about six floors from his apartment. The nursing home at that point had decided to stop special diets, and that was the result! We forget the gut and its integrity are so important to the function of the rest of the body! Anyway, I don't know how workable this might be for you to try, but for us it was very " worth it " . At 07:53 AM 3/2/2008, you wrote: >Good Morning , I want to thank you for the infor. you sent me. The >thing is that I havent seen my Mom yet. Because I am unable to get the >money for my flight,I have to wait until Friday to fly out there.My >ex-husband wont get paid until then,and he is going to pay for my ticket. >I am going to look some of this info that you sent me online.Also,I am >waitting for the Dr. to call me back. I am going to ask him some questions >about her meds,and also ask about kinds of food she is eating. Thank you >so much. Cheryl > > Owens wrote: Cheryl, > >Years ago when my father broke his hip, his dementia got MUCH worse in the >rehab center, so in case there are parallels, I'll share some of my >experience from back then.. One thing they had changed in rehab was they >put him on Zantac. His voice got high and squeaky and he got where he >couldn't interpret the things he was seeing. Some of this may have been >the aftermath of the inflammation from the surgery to repair his hip, but >some of it was indeed caused by the drugs they put him on I'm just saying >this as friendly advice to be sure and check what meds she is on. > >This is what I wrote back then: > >My Dad's dementia is so variable...Why would his mental abilities roller >coaster so? > >I found out that a consulting doctor at the rehab center without my >knowledge put my father on a new medication that was thought would reduce >esophagol reflux, Zantac, and the PDR says it can cause all kinds of >worsening to dementia, which my Dad experienced while he was in rehab. The >drug, I understand, causes the stomach to produce less acid, perhaps >providing a larger pool of big molecules posing as neurotransmitters which >could get into the blood stream and confuse the brain. Maybe the onset of >some of these neurologcal problems could depend on the interaction of >environmental (immunological) insults (cumulative over time) and the normal >breaking down of the body that occurs with aging. Is anyone studying this >sort of thing out there on the net? > >and > >I got to the library today where I could look up zantac in the 1995 >Physician's Desk Reference. Everything looked the same in the areas I >mentioned in a previous post, but this newer version contained the >paragraph that led me two months ago to consult with my father's doctor >about removing it from his medications, to wit: > >(Under adverse reactions) > >Central Nervous System: > >Rarely, malaise, dizziness, somnolence, insomnia, and vertigo. Rare >cases of reversible mental confusion, agitation, depression, and >hallucinations have been reported, predominately in severely ill >elderly patients. > >My father had every one of these symptoms, but the doctors at the rehab >center were either not following him, or they were attributing all of these >to his dementia. They did not remove the zantac when these symptoms occurred. > >I might also like to add that when I was trained to work in a vitamin >store, years ago, they explained that they felt that the gastric >difficulties experienced by most elderly people related not to an >oversupply of stomach acids but from an undersupply. (Funny, that's not >what the commercials say!!) > >Would this possibility explain why the above-mentioned symptoms occur, as >they said, mainly in severely ill *elderly* persons? Might there be a >breaking down of the gut membranes that takes place in aging that makes a >previously intact gut in a coherent person become a permeable gut in a >confused person? Might the malabsorption exacerbated by supplementation >with antacids and zantac further compromise digestion, leaving a person >malnourished and susceptible to further breaking down of tissues associated >with aging? > >Something to chew on? >========= > >Cheryl, he improved rapidly when we got him off the Zantac, but this was >the beginning of a new approach with him, which did eventually reverse his >dementia from late moderate to early moderate and made huge quality of life >differences. I don't know if you could pull this off where your mother is, >but I COULD control fairly easily what my father ate, and that helped him. > > From back then: >============== >I had noticed when I was in Memphis that his dementia was especially worse >after meals, especially ice cream. After listening to a lot of success >stories about autistic children getting off wheat and milk, I decided to >try it on myself, first. After four or five days off wheat, I ate wheat >again and had buzzing in my ears and dropped things with no provocation. >Satisfied enough with that, I tried the diet on my daughter. At four years >old, she was at a similar developmental place in potty training as a >typical 18-24 month old, but the day after she got off of wheat, she potty >trained herself. She said, " Mommy, I can hold my TT for now my muscles >are strong. " Three weeks later, now, I still can't believe that it is a >fait accompli. > >I decided to try Daddy off of wheat. After one week, his aides told me >that for the first time in many years Daddy's stools are normal, his bed >has been dry for a week, his diaper was dry yesterday morning, and >yesterday morning he asked his aide about something that had happened the >day before. He called me many times last week to talk to him on the >phone. When I was in Memphis in July, he never even picked up the phone >when it was ringing because it seemed that he could not remember what a >phone was used for. > >However, this morning his aide called and told me that when she arrived his >whole apartment was covered with excrement and he was terribly upset and >confused. I called the day care food services department and found out >that they had forgotten to mark him for a special meal and had served him >rigatoni (pasta with tomato sauce). Mystery reversion solved. >============ > >I did find, Cheryl, that when he had gluten accidents, that he no longer >could recognize me..so it affected his visual processing. One time I >dropped in unexpected and found him unsupervised and eating a roll (gluten) >and his aides taunted him about who I was (which irritated me) and he could >not figure out who I was by looking at me. A few minutes later, when he >heard me talking to him from behind his back, he scolded me by name...so he >could recognize my voice, just not me by sight. This was definitely a >Gluten thing in his case. There are peptides in gluten that look like >morphine to the brain if they are absorbed into the blood before they are >fully digested. This happens when you have hyperpermeability to the gut, >which can happen with inflammation. His reaction to gluten was so >interesting to me because when he was on morphine with his hip surgery, he >one time thought I was his ex-wife, and another time thought I was his male >junior law partner and carried on a long conversation with " me " about >business at the office. He also tried to change the channel on the window >using the hospital remote, so he thought the window was a TV. He just >couldn't interpret visual things. > >I'm just saying this to encourage you that your mother's failure to >recognize you may have a lot more to do with her visual perception than her >memory! > > > >At 11:25 PM 3/1/2008, you wrote: > > >Good Evening, A update on my Mom, she cant remember who I am most of the > >time,or she thinks she is talking to my older Sister.And sometimes she > >thinks I am still married to my kids Dad,he and I have been divorced > >almost 15 yrs. now. They say that she hit her really bad,but the > >forgiveness has been going on just after she fell the first when she broke > >her hip.So I really dont know,because she seemed fine,she was talking to > >me,and not my sister,and she was normal,but now is not anymore. I will be > >flying out to San Diego this Friday,I was going to go Monday,but I am > >still trying to get the money together to do that. Well I just wanted to > >let you all know the update on my Mom. Cheryl > > > >Just Being Me > > > >--------------------------------- > >Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try > it now. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Thank you . I do believe everything will be alright,because I do have the Good Lord to watch over my Mom,and he will give me the strength that I will need to care for my Mom,and I will my friends here.Thank you so very much.. Cheryl Owens wrote: Cheryl, What a nice ex to buy your ticket! You wont find anything on the dietary intervention for dementia unless it is my own tracks! I know of another lady who tried this (and epsom salts therapy) on her father who was wheelchair-bound in a nursing home and he had not talked for about a year, and he got strong enough that he started pushing his wheelchair around the nursing home and he started talking again, but only in his native language. He was in a country where that wasn't what everybody else was speaking! Mainly, though, for my dad, this yeilded a huge quality of life improvement, which is why I did it. When he had gluten infractions, he also would start wandering and didn't have a clue who he was or where he was going. In fact, one night after such an infraction, he was found wandering stark naked about six floors from his apartment. The nursing home at that point had decided to stop special diets, and that was the result! We forget the gut and its integrity are so important to the function of the rest of the body! Anyway, I don't know how workable this might be for you to try, but for us it was very " worth it " . At 07:53 AM 3/2/2008, you wrote: >Good Morning , I want to thank you for the infor. you sent me. The >thing is that I havent seen my Mom yet. Because I am unable to get the >money for my flight,I have to wait until Friday to fly out there.My >ex-husband wont get paid until then,and he is going to pay for my ticket. >I am going to look some of this info that you sent me online.Also,I am >waitting for the Dr. to call me back. I am going to ask him some questions >about her meds,and also ask about kinds of food she is eating. Thank you >so much. Cheryl > > Owens wrote: Cheryl, > >Years ago when my father broke his hip, his dementia got MUCH worse in the >rehab center, so in case there are parallels, I'll share some of my >experience from back then.. One thing they had changed in rehab was they >put him on Zantac. His voice got high and squeaky and he got where he >couldn't interpret the things he was seeing. Some of this may have been >the aftermath of the inflammation from the surgery to repair his hip, but >some of it was indeed caused by the drugs they put him on I'm just saying >this as friendly advice to be sure and check what meds she is on. > >This is what I wrote back then: > >My Dad's dementia is so variable...Why would his mental abilities roller >coaster so? > >I found out that a consulting doctor at the rehab center without my >knowledge put my father on a new medication that was thought would reduce >esophagol reflux, Zantac, and the PDR says it can cause all kinds of >worsening to dementia, which my Dad experienced while he was in rehab. The >drug, I understand, causes the stomach to produce less acid, perhaps >providing a larger pool of big molecules posing as neurotransmitters which >could get into the blood stream and confuse the brain. Maybe the onset of >some of these neurologcal problems could depend on the interaction of >environmental (immunological) insults (cumulative over time) and the normal >breaking down of the body that occurs with aging. Is anyone studying this >sort of thing out there on the net? > >and > >I got to the library today where I could look up zantac in the 1995 >Physician's Desk Reference. Everything looked the same in the areas I >mentioned in a previous post, but this newer version contained the >paragraph that led me two months ago to consult with my father's doctor >about removing it from his medications, to wit: > >(Under adverse reactions) > >Central Nervous System: > >Rarely, malaise, dizziness, somnolence, insomnia, and vertigo. Rare >cases of reversible mental confusion, agitation, depression, and >hallucinations have been reported, predominately in severely ill >elderly patients. > >My father had every one of these symptoms, but the doctors at the rehab >center were either not following him, or they were attributing all of these >to his dementia. They did not remove the zantac when these symptoms occurred. > >I might also like to add that when I was trained to work in a vitamin >store, years ago, they explained that they felt that the gastric >difficulties experienced by most elderly people related not to an >oversupply of stomach acids but from an undersupply. (Funny, that's not >what the commercials say!!) > >Would this possibility explain why the above-mentioned symptoms occur, as >they said, mainly in severely ill *elderly* persons? Might there be a >breaking down of the gut membranes that takes place in aging that makes a >previously intact gut in a coherent person become a permeable gut in a >confused person? Might the malabsorption exacerbated by supplementation >with antacids and zantac further compromise digestion, leaving a person >malnourished and susceptible to further breaking down of tissues associated >with aging? > >Something to chew on? >========= > >Cheryl, he improved rapidly when we got him off the Zantac, but this was >the beginning of a new approach with him, which did eventually reverse his >dementia from late moderate to early moderate and made huge quality of life >differences. I don't know if you could pull this off where your mother is, >but I COULD control fairly easily what my father ate, and that helped him. > > From back then: >============== >I had noticed when I was in Memphis that his dementia was especially worse >after meals, especially ice cream. After listening to a lot of success >stories about autistic children getting off wheat and milk, I decided to >try it on myself, first. After four or five days off wheat, I ate wheat >again and had buzzing in my ears and dropped things with no provocation. >Satisfied enough with that, I tried the diet on my daughter. At four years >old, she was at a similar developmental place in potty training as a >typical 18-24 month old, but the day after she got off of wheat, she potty >trained herself. She said, " Mommy, I can hold my TT for now my muscles >are strong. " Three weeks later, now, I still can't believe that it is a >fait accompli. > >I decided to try Daddy off of wheat. After one week, his aides told me >that for the first time in many years Daddy's stools are normal, his bed >has been dry for a week, his diaper was dry yesterday morning, and >yesterday morning he asked his aide about something that had happened the >day before. He called me many times last week to talk to him on the >phone. When I was in Memphis in July, he never even picked up the phone >when it was ringing because it seemed that he could not remember what a >phone was used for. > >However, this morning his aide called and told me that when she arrived his >whole apartment was covered with excrement and he was terribly upset and >confused. I called the day care food services department and found out >that they had forgotten to mark him for a special meal and had served him >rigatoni (pasta with tomato sauce). Mystery reversion solved. >============ > >I did find, Cheryl, that when he had gluten accidents, that he no longer >could recognize me..so it affected his visual processing. One time I >dropped in unexpected and found him unsupervised and eating a roll (gluten) >and his aides taunted him about who I was (which irritated me) and he could >not figure out who I was by looking at me. A few minutes later, when he >heard me talking to him from behind his back, he scolded me by name...so he >could recognize my voice, just not me by sight. This was definitely a >Gluten thing in his case. There are peptides in gluten that look like >morphine to the brain if they are absorbed into the blood before they are >fully digested. This happens when you have hyperpermeability to the gut, >which can happen with inflammation. His reaction to gluten was so >interesting to me because when he was on morphine with his hip surgery, he >one time thought I was his ex-wife, and another time thought I was his male >junior law partner and carried on a long conversation with " me " about >business at the office. He also tried to change the channel on the window >using the hospital remote, so he thought the window was a TV. He just >couldn't interpret visual things. > >I'm just saying this to encourage you that your mother's failure to >recognize you may have a lot more to do with her visual perception than her >memory! > > > >At 11:25 PM 3/1/2008, you wrote: > > >Good Evening, A update on my Mom, she cant remember who I am most of the > >time,or she thinks she is talking to my older Sister.And sometimes she > >thinks I am still married to my kids Dad,he and I have been divorced > >almost 15 yrs. now. They say that she hit her really bad,but the > >forgiveness has been going on just after she fell the first when she broke > >her hip.So I really dont know,because she seemed fine,she was talking to > >me,and not my sister,and she was normal,but now is not anymore. I will be > >flying out to San Diego this Friday,I was going to go Monday,but I am > >still trying to get the money together to do that. Well I just wanted to > >let you all know the update on my Mom. Cheryl > > > >Just Being Me > > > >--------------------------------- > >Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try > it now. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 I feel for you. I just hope both you and your mom will be okay. You are in my prayers. Little LINDA --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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