One of the side effects of both the Alzheimer meds, Aricept and Namenda, he is taking is vivid dreams and Hallucinations. Thankfully so far Dad has only had vivid dreams that we have noticed so far.
Tonight 2 hours after going to bed, after having a good, ate all 3 meals and went shopping at whole foods. He woke up and came into the living room talking about canceling a meeting that was supposedly going to occur sometime tonight, he was a bit confused. After sitting and talking about it for a while he realized it was just a dream. We shall see how the rest of the night goes. But in the past it usually happens only once.
Dad really liked going to whole foods, it’s really cool in that it just doesn’t have an escalator that he hasn’t seen in a while, but that is mostly due to not going to places where they had one. he really didn’t do much shopping in department stores for quite some time. Our whole foods also have an escalator for the shopping carts that he got a big kick out of. I was a bit concerned, because it was getting past his dinner time and dad has a habit of saying it’s too late to eat and not eating dinner which only makes things worse, because then he is a stubborn grumpy hungry Alzheimer patient possibly with low blood sugar. The saving grace of whole foods is that they were having lots of things to sample and apparently it was enough to fight off the hunger that leads to the evening issues, and dad ate a good meal at home as well, even though it was after 7pm usually it’s a loss cause if we don’t get dinner in him by 6pm.
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