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Anyone found that person with MCI has become increasingly clumsy?
Caregivers | Last Active: Jul 30 1:55pm | Replies (14)Comment receiving replies
I don't know whether I would consider my husband diagnosed with MCI as clumsy. I never looked at it that way. I know he is forgetful, has difficulty following any set of sequencing instructions. Sometimes appears confused - which can appear clumsy especially when he starts dropping things - when I ask him to do something. I do know from what I've read, that someone with MCI can seem clumsy because of the changes in the brain that affect, balance, movement and how they judge space or distance. And that although MCI is mostly knows for memory and thinking slips, motor and spatial skills can also be involved. They have trouble judging distances, why my husband last night hit his head on the cooktop vent. With his attention and focus, I do see he is easily distracted, often dropping things.
Hope this helps. Best, Karla
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During the psychological testing my husband was noted to have spatial awareness issues. Yet at the time he scored off the charts, as I knew he would. One thing though is that he showed how he speaks to me (these days) and the psychologist told him he needed to learn how to speak to people (me) better. * He never spoke to me like that until this diagnosis. This was the first major behavioral change I noticed. He has what I’d consider OCD but it isn’t crippling. Suddenly he had me buy coffee cups that were all the same ( like one might find at a hotel) and he would not eat off of anything square (as I’ve noticed are often used in Asian restaurants). To keep down the complaining I ordered the coffee cups. He found something wrong with them.
Then, I am a gardener. It is my hobby. Something in my garden was “bugging” him. So he took my very sharp hand shears without telling me, went out there to “take care of it” and amputated the end of his finger (accidentally). ( I was gone at the time to get a haircut) I think this was a spatial thing. I came home, saw his bandage and asked what happened. He drove himself to the nearby ER and had himself treated, thank goodness. I followed up with the ER doc.
I’ve locked the shears away and he can’t get to them.
Otherwise, he is very functional. It is all beyond weird to me. His MRI says he has issues but being so functional is what is scary. Never know what may happen.