Still here.

Yeesh, it's been a month? My brain has been very full and time is flying. I'm doing OK though, didn't disappear into a depressed funk or anything. Just busy.

Strange news this week: the doctor now says he does not think Mom has Alzheimer's, or any degenerative neurological disease. The trick is that he doesn't have any clue what the problem actually is. No dispute that something's not working right, but what is it?

On one hand this is a relief, because we don't have to look at what's happening to all those folks who do have Alzheimer's and prepare ourselves to go through THAT. But on the other hand, her support group and all the connections she's made with people in Alzheimer's services are suddenly not there for her in the same way, and she's still having all the same problems she was before. And we just don't know WHAT to prepare ourselves for at all.

Next step, talk to some different doctors. And we just keep going one day at a time.