A little before the events surrounding our efforts to get Dad to take Aricept, I had come home, around the Christmas holidays as I recall. Mom was having serious problems with Dad wanting to get up in the night and start to wander, even catching him outside about 4am at one point. Needless to say…
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Cheeking
When Dad was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’ s his doctor recommended the usual medications, such as Exelon and Aricept, which I gather are still common, now deliverable via patches, which is probably a great boon for some. But Dad had a severe physical reaction to these meds–immediate cold sweats, trembling, nausea, and vomiting. We kept…