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We have home care and they have been very good. I am doing the push antibotic and so far I'm doing okay. My husband sometimes thinks I'm someone else, his sister, his cousin, a "a very short woman" etc. etc. --when I tell him, no it's me, your wife...he gets angry. Then in about an hour or two, he seems fine, seems much like himself, knows me. When he gets delusional, I ask him "Who do you think I am? his answer is "What name do you call yourself?" When I give him my name, he gets angry and then tells me "No, that's not you." Today, he grabbed the keys to the car as if he was leaving...which, thank God, he did not...very scary. So I have no idea what is physically going on in his brain. Blood flow? the inflection? My plan is to see what happens when the push antibotic stops in about 7 days, then back to his neurologist if it continues. I looked at his MRI and it doesn't seem bad. I had taken him to neurologist before we knew it was blood inflection. That DR. who had just seen him 2 months ago, did not see much of a change. But clearly, something is not right. Regardless of what this is, I need a plan on what to do when his "You are not my wife" thing happens. Any suggestions?

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@reddesert I don't have any suggestions, but this is one more thing we just have to go with.
He can't help it, and we can't fix it. If it helps, my husband doesn't seem to recognize me at times, and it's sad and hurts. Sometimes we look at photos, and if I say that's me, he says that's Trisha, and you're not Trisha. He's right, I'm not that happy, pretty young woman!