I am wondering if anone else is in a similar situation as I am. Trying to live with someone close to them with severe memory loss? I am lost in communicating with a very close friend who is very ill and not understanding how ill she is. I really want to know the right way to deal with this situation or at least find someone else dealing with a similar problem to chat with. If I can't find a way to handle this situation I believe I am going to have to give up a close friend.
2006-08-11 08:05:32 · 5 answers · asked by winterstorm23 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I am a nurse, and I work with patients that have traumatic brain injuries (TBI's). Every pt. is different, and it generally takes quite a while for someone to recover from this type of injury. Please, don't give up on your friend! She is obviously having a very hard time right now. Hopefully, she is under the care of a doctor, and is receiving medicines and therapy for this injury. Brain injuries can be successfully treated, but patience is the most important thing. Just remember how you would want her to "hang in there" if you were the injured person.
2006-08-11 08:37:51 · answer #1 · answered by kaykay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Memory loss is not an easy thing to deal with you just have to remind yourself that they do not realize they have this problem sometimes. And the injury may be a closed head injury and they should see a better doctor. As for how to deal with think of it this way. How would they be treating you if the roles were reverese and how would you want to be treated. My fiances brother had a closed head injury and it was hard but if you truly care about the person you wont care what you have to do to be there for them.
Also it might be helpful for you to also speak to there doctor and see if there is anything you can do to help.
2006-08-11 08:19:34 · answer #2 · answered by mixedberry23 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son suffered a TBI 5 and a half years ago. He has suffered with severe chronic migraines during this time. He is also dealing more and more with memory loss. He is having trouble remembering anything he did 5 minutes ago. Have yet to find the correct neurologist to deal with this. On top of all that, there was damage done to his neck, he is 21 and has degenerative disc disease with arthritis in his neck and has been diagnosed with fibromyalgia because of the pain that is caused throughout his body (wearing clothes hurts). Be patient, loving, and kind.
2015-03-27 07:43:03 · answer #3 · answered by Kimberly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm no longer a dr. nor do I artwork in a field concerning drugs. If I did i does not have this answer for you for i might have my head crammed with in basic terms what they go with me to assert or what's interior the books. This comes far from the two of them and is why i will bypass it alongside to you. of direction you could delete this real now in case you sense there isn't any way i will assist you to. each little thing you wrote is clever whilst placed into the suited attitude. once you probably did your component including your head you gave your self a headache that may artwork at different factors interior the techniques and if severe sufficient reason epilepsy. You appeared to get real to the brink of that. the subsequent time you probably did it your muscle mass have been nevertheless sore and once you probably did it lower back it grow to be much less complicated to set off the matters lower back. What you probably did grow to be tighten up the muscle mass on your neck so undesirable they are becoming the worst headache you have experienced. That headache is what's inflicting all the different issues you indexed. you will proceed to have those issues until eventually you launch the muscle mass that are inflicting this concern, those on your neck. whilst they are released each little thing else ought to return to popular. i do no longer comprehend how this might reason everlasting harm different than in case you went into convulsions. Even those must be waiting to be taken care of if finished real. right it incredibly is the approach of launch that ought that may assist you: to your neck: place your hand alongside your head and push your thumb in under your ear and place it on the muscle there. Take your hands and place them on the lower back of your neck on the muscle mass there. Press them at the same time and carry a competent volume of rigidity on them. Then loosen up, take a deep breath an going on, the muscle going limp under the rigidity. proceed to hold until eventually the excellent muscle has long previous limp. in case you have any questions or issues enable me comprehend and that i visit objective to assist
2016-12-11 07:01:12 · answer #4 · answered by pfarr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of patience. I know it sounds simple but it's true. My father had similar issues after a traumatic event and it took a lot of patience. Some things he just couldn't remember and I had to accept that.
2006-08-11 08:12:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋