Friday, March 27, 2009

My moms on Aricept.....

it's making her worse I think. Basically what this drug does, is keep it from getting worse but won't cure it. Problem is it makes them pretty dang loopy. You ever go to Costco and buy a huge package of hamburger and forget about it for a few days and it starts to smell funny, but it's not "bad" yet, so you stick it in the freezer? The freezer won't make it "good" again it just keeps it from getting worse. That's what this drug does. Freezes her brain in the not qutie bad yet. Problem is you can only keep the meat in the freezer for so long before it gets freezer burn. Once you take them off the meds apparently they go down hill quite fast. If she's on 1/2 pill she gets very combative and OMG BITCHY! but she sleeps all the time on the full dose pill. I guess I would rather have loopy and nice than combative and bitchy. I caught her.... umm, well lets just say she was not the master of her domane... the other day. I could have lived my whole stupid life without THAT image in my head. But she was happy. Good Lord what a trade off.

And everyone wonders why I go to Disneyland so much.

It's trash pick up this week and I don't even care. I must be depressed

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