joang-Did I miss a discussion somewhere on this topic? I SO know what you mean. My husband fools lots of people. They think he is faking forgetting, though, not fake remembering. He is so good at changing the topic to an old one he still remembers. Like today, he met a cousin he didn't recognize. The cousin started asking him about other cousins. Instead of answering, my husband started talking about an uncle and told a very clear story which occurred during Word War II.No one remembered that he had no idea who he was talking to.Phyllis9
Boy, that never occurred to me way back when, the habit of changing a topic to one that he could still talk about. It explains a lot of what was happening before I realized the presence of dementia.
No, you didn't miss anything. We didn't have a discussion on that blog. Thanks for starting one. I never realized how much of his problem he is able to hide. When I talked about it with a friend, she said her husband does the same thing, and she is only now realizing it.
OMG, I never thought about it. For YEARS my DH would tell me some story from years ago, when I asked how his day went at work. He worked at the same place for over 30 years. And sometimes I thought they were current stories. You know I had red flags all over the place and never saw them. In the last 10 years or so he was always changing the conversation around to what he wanted to talk about. Now I know why.
I thought I'd identified ALL the red flags that I missed earlier, but this one is just a real wake-up call and takes my awareness beyond the point where I thought it all began. Wow! The times I thought he was just being inappropriate with conversation skills was really an early sign.
thanks again for validating my feelings, guys.It's so great to have you out there when I am feeling so alone with all this.A question. Do any LO's out there take Galantamine? I think my DH is getting more angry and paranoid on it and the MD disagrees. What to do? Phyllis9