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I have done that too. My new strategy now is to record what I say to my husband, get his response to the directions/statements, and then when he denies I said what I said, playback the recording with his own voice so he can hear what he said. See if that works. Of course it will only work until he no longer recognizes his voice! Best wishes!
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I plan to give it to her during her "better" moments. Each time will be like the 1st (today). If it saves me the frustrating, emotional, impossible conversations we seem to have every other week, I think it's worth a try.
Mom comprehends what she reads MUCH better than what she hears (or doesn't hear, but pretends to). She doesn't remember what she reads for long...but definitely longer than a conversation. She is VERY hard of hearing, so confusion is much worse during important conversations.
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a different path to comprehension doesnt repair flawed reasoning, boni.
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boni, i think you might have just caught her in one of her better moments. when shes feeling confused and picked on i think the letter will be just one more of those instances where shes always wrong and your always right and everybody is always telling her shes stupid. i could be wrong but i could be right, ive tried notes too cause mom can understand a note better than verbal communication sometimes..its the frame of mind that wanders in and out. the whole 2 hours of our first alz class was about their skewed thinking and how we have to work with their reasoning. you cant correct it, its pathalogical. ( thoughts take improper paths, arent with proper reasoning. ) my mother is beginning to hate my sis for trying to correct her too much.. i dont think a note during a good moment is going to have any lasting meaning when shes back in fog land.
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