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 Determining whether an Alzheimer’s patient doesn’t feel well or is simply cranky can be a difficult call, much as it is when a baby is ill.  Unless Mother was running a fever, coughing, bleeding, sneezing, or had other obvious ill symptoms, it was difficult to know what was wrong.
Was her obstinancy caused by pain?  Did her anger come from a stomach ache?  Did her moaning mean a toothache?  Was her stubbornness to cooperate because she didn’t want to.  Or was she not feeling well?
Did she understand when I asked her if she was in pain, if she felt well, if her …read more