Pin pointing the exact start is difficult. Initially she could hear my friend talking outside; then I joined in the conversation; and these conversations were happening regularly.
We moved on to hearing the choir outside before they turned into Carol Singers in the summer; but, if I told her she was talking about her dreams, she seemed to be satisfied.
One cold morning, when my husband went to see if she was up and to have his usual cup of tea with her before going to work, she was stood outside, waiting for the bus to take her and a crowd of people out for the day. This is when it started to be more serious as we were at the point of not knowing if she had had visitors/callers or not.
Brother in Law confronted my husband one day about us moving away from the area, after a conversation with her, but, she had spoken to us a few times about him moving away. Husband also has a girlfriend and a baby, apparently, but I think this is just her thinking about the past and it seeming very real and in the here and now in her thought process.
When you sit down and think about the things she is saying, you can relate them to actual events in the past and it seems logical for her to be putting her thoughts into order, but then other things are so incredulous that you have to sit and laugh about them, otherwise they would be upsetting.
A call to action came a few weeks back when the Carer found her fallen over in the snow. She had gone to help someone in the orchard who was shouting for help, and had fallen over and was unable to get up as the snow was very slippery. This event was very clear in her mind as not only did she tell the carer, myself, the paramedics and ambulance staff but also the Dr when he arrived sometime later.
Since then she has gotten progressively worse and very quickly and the tests were done to formally diagnose dementia.
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