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I must agree with Teacher Terry. You can instruct the doctors to dig deeper. Be her health detective. But I sense a lot of bitterness in your last post towards your sister while she lies helpless. What if it IS something that can be fixed, and nothing was done. All doctors don't know everything there is to know.
You can rise above the bitterness, and be her health advocate. Her mistakes in judgement can wait a little while longer. If we were all judged on our shortcomings who could stand?
So sad Mr Rogers. Someone told me last night that their mom was diagnosed with dementia but a doctor ran tests and realized her pituitary gland wasn’t working and she was only 70. Once on medication she was fine. The dementia symptoms came on quickly which convince her kids to look for a different answer.
That's at least one happy story. I am glad for them.
The UTI-dementia thing is quite common. There are many things that can cause what appears to be a sudden onset of dementia, some more "sudden" than others. A serious fall can sometimes trigger an episode, as it did with my MIL. She crushed a vertebrae and while she did have mild dementia already, it went from a minor issue, into almost complete loss of memory for several days to a week. After a procedure to fix her vertebrae with some sort of cement injected into it, she got better after a several days. I read of one older lady whose dementia seemed really advanced, but when she went into the hospital for something else, her dementia-like symptoms would fade and she'd be more normal. Then she went home from the hospital and her problems came back. Her family searched her home for a reason and it turned out she kept mothballs in her dresser drawers and closet and all her clothes reeked of napthalene. The napthalene was poisoning her, and causing her symptoms. Once they removed all the moth balls, cleaned all her clothes, washed and aired out her dresser and closet, she started getting better and didn't have dementia at all. I'm not suggesting this is your sister's problem, just showing that there can be environmental, as well as other issues like infection, that can cause the symptoms of dementia.
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