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What were the first dementia signs you noticed?
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My husband would ask me the name of his relative that i may have met once. Also refused to play board games with friends. He began saying things are familiar like a movie that was just released, or he’s been somewhere that i know is impossible. For me the saddest is watching him look for anyway to fill his time each day, like picking up and counting pinecones in the yard. He has a very difficult time relaxing.
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My husband does the "it's familiar" thing, too. Like when we were in Lexington for a doctor's appointment, we passed a guy panhandling and he said he remembered that guy being there before. We hadn't been to Lexington for a few months. Other times he claims he recognizes a car that is driving toward us, that he's seen it before. Of course, it's possible he really did, but since people seldom remember something so unimportant, I doubt it.
He also invents stories about things he saw that I know never happened, but he's convinced they did. I see it as him trying to fill the holes in his memory with something. He also goes outside (when it's not covered in snow and ice like it is now) and picks up twigs. He doesn't count them, though, just throws them out of the way.