Dementia - Back to memory loss state

On Friday, my father dementia back to the memory loss state. The alertness only last for 3 days. During the alert state, beside unable to sleep, he was very active and like to exercise to keep body fit. His blood pressure went up between145 to 150. His behaviour will be stubborn and talk a lot.

Dementia - Mental back to Alert

My father had the dementia for few years. The doctor diagnose and indicated that there were 3 minor stroke in the brain and caused my father the loss of the memory. Even though my father is the pioneer generation, there is no subsidiary for the medicine that he need to consume. As these medicine are not classify as general standard subsidy medicine and need to be pay in full.

However for years of observation, in every 3 to 4 months my father will suddenly become very alert and start to talk in sense. In the most recent, Tuesday, he will read the newspaper and talk on the election. He will want to do exercise which in the dementia state that he will only want to lie in the bed and sleep. However the side effect of this alertness is he couldn't sleep. In the past 2 days, he hardly sleep for 2 hours.

Will continue write this blog to record the observation of the mental alertness.