5-18-2012

Mom's memory/orientation is definitely deteriorating.  Today I went early in the morning and she told me they were trying to round up all the cats, and some were getting killed.  She asked where Paula was, and I said 'At home with her family.'

"What family?"

'She has a husband and 2 children.'

"She does? No one told me. I didn't know that."

Yesterday they also gave me the equivalent of a report card, which includes a line item for her cognitive orientation.  On a scale from 0 - 5 will zero being fully oriented and 5 being comatose, Mom is a 4, which is "disoriented, all spheres, all of the time"  I tried to capture copies of it with my phone, not sure if the photos will be readable or not.