Hi @A myALZteam Member, with vascular dementia, if the person hasn’t had any more strokes they may not decline further and may even improve but unfortunately, these improvements are generally short lived. Its quite possible Dennis has shown some improvement in the short term. You aren’t imagining it.

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Hi Anne, as carers, each of us must walk this journey in our own unique way and experience it day by day because we are all, like those with Alzheimers, unique. There are some things that are often common in symptoms but rarely do any two patients present in the same way. Neither do we. I find it helpful to reflect at the end of each day on what I did well and what I could have improved on. What caused a particular behaviour or why was some issue presenting itself. All those things help us face each new day better prepared for what comes. I was watching a program this Sunday on television and heard a man talking about the loss of his 22 year old son to a drug overdose and then only a few months later, his wife died from a terminal illness. He said something I will always remember. It was that, in life, we must always be ready for the certainty of the unexpected. I couldn’t help thinking how relevant that was to our Alzheimers community and journey.

I hate autocorrect. It should read that his tropes (troponin levels) didn't help them find anything. They were absolutely normal, because no damage had occurred yet.

He was actually treated before having a stroke. It was late evening, and I had just dressed for bed. He complained of chest pain, so I called 911. He asked me why I wasn't ready to drive him yet, and I explained that I had called an ambulance, because I don't like doing CPR alone in the roadside. We were discharged from the emergency room two nights, and on the third, they admitted him, even though his tropes find who anything. They were about to discharge him again, so I went to the social worker to ask how many times I had to call the ambulance. She asked what I wanted done, and I asked for the cardiologist. A cardiologist agreed that the evidence wasn't compelling. "It's either nothing, or it's 3-vessel disease." It was indeed 3-vessel disease, and he had stent placements the next morning.

Great news @A myALZteam Member.

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