Depression is one of the hallmark features of Alzheimer's Disease. These emails highlight my Nana's early stuggle with depression over her loss of vision and independence.
Sept 2, 2004
Last night Nana’s mood had changed. She said that she wanted to learn more about what acupuncture was. Today she is back to saying that she thought that she would stay in bed all day because there was not any reason to get up now.
Sept 20, 2004
Nana is doing OK. She swings between eagerness to go somewhere and depression where she says that there is no reason for her to get up each day. The good news is that a small amount of vision has returned. Perhaps that is why the doctor who did the cool laser surgery told her to come back in six weeks. Perhaps it takes that long for the eye to stabilize so that she can be given glasses to maximize the vision that is left. A (my aunt; my mother's sister) and I are trying to take her places. On Thursday I took her to get her hair done. On Saturday A took her to the drugstore and to the A&P. On Saturday night A is having a birthday dinner for R’s mother
Barney is out of the hospital and the rehab facility and happy to be at home again. He is not driving yet, so we have not seen him. But Barney and his son S are both invited to A’s on Saturday for the birthday dinner.
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