Navigating thru the odd behaviors and learning.
My mom is 81 diagnosed with early onset 2 yrs ago. For the most part, my sister is in charge of everything now. I wasn't fully aware of other things that are sort of oddities. Last year I took mom to dinner and mid meal she began to scoop rice into the wax paper sheat that the clean silverware was in. And she was shoveling it with the spoon and then tied the top and was putting it in her purse. She's not food insecure. It was weird seeing that. My heart sank bc she did it like it was normal. I had to tell her we would ask for a to go container.
Yesterday, my sister said she went in her apartment after dropping her off and checked fridge, and found marinated meat (all gone bad) that my mom had forced into a travel mug with lid. My sister makes my mom's weekly meals but my mom still chooses to shop for food. There were 4 containers of Almond milk and 2 were from December 2025. My mom insisted she didn't like the taste, but continued buying the same brand and just hoards it. She also hoards toilet paper and is running out of storage places in her apartment.
Lastly, she had thermal leggins under her slacks. It was 83 degrees yesterday. I have begun to read a lot on the topic of Alzheimers and will continue. Just wanted to share this because it has been a while new year of strange actions