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Cerebral amyloid angiopathy

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Hello, @bortner, and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Glad you found this site and that you are finding some similarities in what you are reading in this discussion, "Cerebral amyloid angiopathy," with what you've seen in your wife.

I'd like you to meet @surf362 @sistertwo @thomaslmason @nonipoppy and others in this discussion. I'd also like to introduce you to @johnbishop, as well as @IndianaScott, who is the volunteer mentor for the Connect Caregivers group, https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/caregivers/, and may have some knowledge about seeing confusion in a loved one.

Is this a recent diagnosis, @bortner? What types of confusion is your wife experiencing?

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Diagnosed 1/29/19. She had been having trouble staying focused on tasks since mid December. After my surgery for a fractured knee cap I had asked her to tie my shoelaces. She tied one and left to do something else. It’s funny now, but I thought, what the heck. Blew through a stop sign. Trying to separate coffee filters,when there’s only one. Lots of little things that only a husband would notice. We went to the ER after she had tingling in her arms, weakness in her legs and she tried talking but nothing came out. CT scan and MRI showed a 3 cm x 5 cm area of bleeding in right frontal lobe. Going back in 2 weeks for follow up MRI and neurologist appointment