My mom

So, my mom went to a neurologist last Friday.  My siblings and I had put together a list of the symptoms we've noticed over the past couple years or so, and the neurologist looked at the list and gave his expert opinion.

He thinks that the capillaries in my mom's brain are probably restricting the blood flow to some extent... and that along with that, an Alzheimer's process may be beginning.  He said that the two commonly go together and that the treatment is the same.  He's giving her some medication which will ideally keep the downward trend from going any further.

I would have expected that I would be feeling incredibly dismayed about this; as it is, well, I think what's going on is that I've been dismayed about this for the past couple years and to hear it diagnosed at last isn't really a surprise.  I'm just hoping that the treatment really works.

I don't know how much I've told any of you about the symptoms my mom's been showing.  None of them are severe enough to make her nonfunctional.  Heck, several of them are simply a change from certain rather superhuman levels of brain function to normal levels.  For example, she misspells words sometimes now.  My mom never misspells words, no matter how obscure.  Never.  Until these last couple years or so.  But it's been incredibly worrisome, watching things decline, knowing that if they keep declining she will be nonfunctional.

Anyway, just thought I should tell you all about this.  Prayers appreciated.

-Melanie