‘’ I don’t like it here. I don’t stay here. I don’t know anyone around here. I just want back to my house with all my own things’’. My gran would say this on a regular basis and even though she stayed in the same house for the last five years she couldn’t remember anything. It’s amazing and scary what a difference a year can make. It’s also fascinating what it can do to a person and the people surrounding them. One day they’re so full of life and happy, the next they can’t even remember special family events and milestones.
It was mid April when we first noticed something was wrong. I had just got home from school, when my mum got a phone call from my gran’s friend. He told us that when my gran woke up that day she was very confused and that she couldn’t remember that her mum and dad had passed away, when they had actually died twenty years previously! She also couldn’t remember peoples’ names and kept imagining people had visited her, when in reality she …show more content…
This time she was taken to ‘Leverndale Hospital’ which is a psychiatric hospital. The day she was taken to hospital was the 14th January which was exactly one year since her best friend’s funeral. So much had changed since then. She was no longer happy, a lot less independent and she had a lot less freedom. During the first few weeks at Leverndale she was told that she would be taken for a technological advanced scan from Holland to see if they could find out why she was forgetting things. When the results came back a few weeks later, they said the results came back clear, so there should be nothing wrong with her. This was nearly a year and a half since her condition started and we still didn’t have a diagnosis. I remember going up to visit her for the first time and hating it. I didn’t like seeing her so vulnerable and unlike
It was mid April when we first noticed something was wrong. I had just got home from school, when my mum got a phone call from my gran’s friend. He told us that when my gran woke up that day she was very confused and that she couldn’t remember that her mum and dad had passed away, when they had actually died twenty years previously! She also couldn’t remember peoples’ names and kept imagining people had visited her, when in reality she …show more content…
This time she was taken to ‘Leverndale Hospital’ which is a psychiatric hospital. The day she was taken to hospital was the 14th January which was exactly one year since her best friend’s funeral. So much had changed since then. She was no longer happy, a lot less independent and she had a lot less freedom. During the first few weeks at Leverndale she was told that she would be taken for a technological advanced scan from Holland to see if they could find out why she was forgetting things. When the results came back a few weeks later, they said the results came back clear, so there should be nothing wrong with her. This was nearly a year and a half since her condition started and we still didn’t have a diagnosis. I remember going up to visit her for the first time and hating it. I didn’t like seeing her so vulnerable and unlike