痴呆的真相

One year ago in the summer vacation, my grandma fell down while working in the soil in hot weather. She was diagnosed with brain atrophy. At that time, she had a slight memory loss, could not distinguish the seasons, and could not match the words. We thought it was a normal manifestation of brain atrophy. At that time, I always heard my grandfather say that my grandmother had dementia disease, but I did not associate it with Alzheimer's disease at that time.

At the end of the summer vacation this year, my grandma fell down in the street when she went to the market alone to buy seeds. She fell on her head, which was very serious. I had never seen my grandma spit out so much blood, and she was sent to the hospital for ten days. During the hospitalization, grandma was very uncooperative with the treatment, but also always wanted to pull the hand infusion needle off, nurses can only tie her hand to the bed. When she returned home from the hospital, her condition did not recover, and her cognitive dissonance became more and more serious. She also often stayed awake and tried to destroy things in the house. The family couldn't bear that, so they send her to the mental hospital, and every time they called her, I found that her condition had worsened after she went to the hospital.

A few days ago, I read a story on Weibo about the elderly family member suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which is very similar to my grandmother's condition. It was then that I connected my grandmother's disease with Alzheimer's disease. In the past, I only thought that Alzheimer's disease would continue with dementia, but it would make patients so out of control and manic in the middle and late stages. The more I learned, the more I realized that Grandma had Alzheimer's. But the medicine the psychiatric hospital prescribed for Grandma was for schizophrenia and increased the risk of death for Alzheimer's patients. I don't know what Grandma will be like after a month of this.

Today, I went to see movies about Alzheimer's disease, especially the recent movie "Mom!" yesterday. I wanted to have a deeper understanding of this disease after The trailer, so I finished watching The documentary The Truth About Dementia.

The main character is a 71-year-old grandmother who is trying to figure out if she will get Alzheimer's. One of the women she visited who had Alzheimer's said it very well: "As we get older, we all have challenges. Some people get cancer, some people get strokes, we all have our own issues to deal with.

We could curl up and die, avoiding the disease, but that would be a waste of time and a waste of opportunity. So it's a challenge for me, but it also helps other people."

When I think of my grandmother, who is 72 years old this year, she is not highly educated, has no social activities of her own, uses little brain, and always repeats mechanical labor. She is often oppressed by family members at home, giving her negative psychological hints. She had the signs of pre-Alzheimer's disease before, but she had not received the attention of her family. Her fall this time was just a cause for the aggravation of the disease. I am so sad today.