In 2024/5 my sister and I noticed that our Mum was getting more forgetful and not doing activities that she would normally do. She started to repeatedly ask the same questions. She would remember for quite a while initially. She slowed down on her knitting, she never had the needles out of her hands. She stopped baking cakes especially for everyone’s birthday and her scones which everyone fought over to get one. My sister and spent a little time persuading her to go the doctors for a check up. Mum agreed and we went to the GP in February 2025. Mum always seemed better in the morning and this when we had the appointment. The doctor asked Mum the standard questions and tasks. She missed a month but then remembered and got the address slightly wrong. The doctor said she was doing okay and got 95% out of 100%. He suggested that we all with Mum return in a year to review. Our Mum was agitated by my sister and I but the GP tried to reassure us that we were trying to look out for her as we cared. Although it seemed a relief at the time my sister and I knew something was wrong but on that day she was bright as a button and it seemed to make us out as liars. We as sisters didn’t really discus in depth but had this non-verbal communication that we knew.
