My mother has been diagnosed with some sort of illness, it's close to schitzofrinia. She's mostly quite around people, trys to be alone most of the day and sometimes you can hear here talking out loud in jibirish. She has halucinations and when she speaks to any of us, she has this weird accent. It has been tough living with this, but she's our mom and we have to.
A Dr. has prescribed risperdal to us and it has worked magically. She is slowly getting back on track. The problem is, we put the medicine in some juice and she doesn't know that she's taking medication, because she thinks that she's fine. Since she got a little better, she went on a diet (she had already gained 40+ pounds since she got sick). Now she doesn't drink anything, we haven't given her the medicine for two weeks now. And she's getting worst.
The Dr. says there isn't another option, but I'm desperatly hoping there is. We can't mix it with soda or tea and that's all she drinks.
Anyone? Please!
2007-12-19
08:27:21
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