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Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:17 pm
Hi everyone!
Hope you are all doing ok.
Firstly, let me state I know no one can diagnose over the internet and I will need to bring my grandmother to a healthcare professional but wanted to get some advice.
My grandmother is 87. She seems to have a few forgetful episodes this year. She believes something so much and won't listen when we try to correct her. She gets upset and stops the conversation. Her sister had Alzheimers and passed last year.
The reason I am contacting the forum is because she made me very worried yesterday. A neighbor, who we only speak to a couple of times a year and generally at Christmas called the house. She found out my grandmother was there and said she would pass down a gift for Christmas (encase she didn't see my grandmother during the Christmas period). She knitted my grandmother a hat and a blanket and when my grandmother looked at it later got so angry.
She believed the hat and blanket where for cancer patients. She said she had heard it on the radio during the week that they were looking for blankets for the patients with cancer receiving chemo in hospitals. She thought the woman knew she had cancer. Side note, My grandmother does not have cancer and if she did, we wouldn't have told this person and my grandmother would know, we wouldn't hide it from her.
She got frustrated and angry with me when I told her she was being silly. I talked to her later in the evening and tried to figure out how she came to this conclusion. She said she didn't see what was in the letter that she had to hand into her GP after getting an endoscope. She had already met with a doctor in the hospital who went through and showed her images and just said she had aid and a hernia. She had this endoscope done 3 years ago so I'm unsure why she's thinking about it
She believes she has cancer and has already asked her GP before if she has it.
She asked me to bring her to her doctor so she can ask him again if she has it. I don't think bringing her back would be the best action to take. We tried explaining that the only thing in the letter was the results that they had already given her.
My grandmother lives at home alone. She doesn't get out due to two hip replacement surgery failures. She comes to my house on weekends and y family buy her groceries. She cooks for herself and dresses herself and everything like that.
I have no experience in this and I'm not sure how to coax her through this.
Has anyone any similar experience or advice?
Hope you are all doing ok.
Firstly, let me state I know no one can diagnose over the internet and I will need to bring my grandmother to a healthcare professional but wanted to get some advice.
My grandmother is 87. She seems to have a few forgetful episodes this year. She believes something so much and won't listen when we try to correct her. She gets upset and stops the conversation. Her sister had Alzheimers and passed last year.
The reason I am contacting the forum is because she made me very worried yesterday. A neighbor, who we only speak to a couple of times a year and generally at Christmas called the house. She found out my grandmother was there and said she would pass down a gift for Christmas (encase she didn't see my grandmother during the Christmas period). She knitted my grandmother a hat and a blanket and when my grandmother looked at it later got so angry.
She believed the hat and blanket where for cancer patients. She said she had heard it on the radio during the week that they were looking for blankets for the patients with cancer receiving chemo in hospitals. She thought the woman knew she had cancer. Side note, My grandmother does not have cancer and if she did, we wouldn't have told this person and my grandmother would know, we wouldn't hide it from her.
She got frustrated and angry with me when I told her she was being silly. I talked to her later in the evening and tried to figure out how she came to this conclusion. She said she didn't see what was in the letter that she had to hand into her GP after getting an endoscope. She had already met with a doctor in the hospital who went through and showed her images and just said she had aid and a hernia. She had this endoscope done 3 years ago so I'm unsure why she's thinking about it
She believes she has cancer and has already asked her GP before if she has it.
She asked me to bring her to her doctor so she can ask him again if she has it. I don't think bringing her back would be the best action to take. We tried explaining that the only thing in the letter was the results that they had already given her.
My grandmother lives at home alone. She doesn't get out due to two hip replacement surgery failures. She comes to my house on weekends and y family buy her groceries. She cooks for herself and dresses herself and everything like that.
I have no experience in this and I'm not sure how to coax her through this.
Has anyone any similar experience or advice?
