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Originally Posted by graciegirl
If you really want to know some of the early signs of Alzheimers, you need only google. "The early signs of Alzheimers." The Alzheimers Association has collected all known facts about the disease.
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It wasn't my intention to teach what all the early signs of Alzheimer's are. The ten early warning signs are very basic and good but were not meant to be part of the scope of this thread. No harm done if people were not aware of them and like to read them.
My point was to look for something earlier than those 10 early warning signs that are not all that early, in my opinion.
As an example, here's one possibility: When I was 9 years old I remember an incident where my aunt was complaining to everyone in the family that her husband was cheating on her. No one ever believed it for a minute because, well, it was just absurd. Whenever anyone asked her how she knew he was cheating, she would say: "Oh, I know! He can't fool me, I see the way he looks at women when we go out." That's it. That's all she had and she was telling everyone who would listen that he was cheating on her.
No one ever suspected it might be an early warning sign of dementia. 10 or more years passed before she was diagnosed with dementia. And guess who took care of her every need? Her husband who she accused of cheating. She got to the point where she couldn't do anything for herself and he would wash her, dress her, put her in her wheel chair and feed her. And he would talk to her as if she might be in there, somewhere, listening.
So, I think profound unfounded-suspicion, such as she had, might be an early warning sign, not the everyday suspicions that people normally have. A little suspicion can be a healthy thing when you go shopping for a used car, for example.