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Originally Posted by drummer My mother is in the late stages of Alzheimer's. Recently she has lost her vision and become blind. Her eye doctor said her eyes are fine but can no longer interpret the signals from the brain. Has anyone else ever heard of this happening? |
Yes, my mother has early onset Alzheimer's. She was diagnosed at age 62 and is now 68 and in what appears to be late stage AD. Her eyesight was bothering her early in the disease. Her opthamologist said she did have the beginning of macular degeneration. However, not much longer after that when she went back to the eye doctor complaining and he new she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he told my parents that the macular degeneration was not bad enough to cause the symptoms she was complaining about. He said it is not uncommon with AD patients that they get to the point where their brain does not compute what they see. This makes sense to us. Now she is at the point that we wouldn't know if she did see things because she can no longer communicate intelligibly.
I am sorry for what you are going through. I know just how hard it is. Someone asked me the other day if it was hard seeing my mother this way. Of course, I said it was, but she has been so bad off for such a long time that I'm used to her being this way. It really is a long good-bye. The grieving process lasts and lasts.
Good luck to you and your family.
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