Thanks you two. Her sundowning is literally destroying my mental health and physical health due to the lack of sleep. Dementia is a battle no one wins. It's a very crazy-making situation saidso. I yelled at a woman at the support group I attended today, b/c she snarkily brought up my age (48) as being "so young," which actually, women MY AGE are the normal age for women caregivers of their elderly parents.

I left the room sobbing hysterically, with the social worker following behind me who spent about 30 minutes calming me down and giving me more resources. My sister and I actually agreed to ask our mother's doctor to write an order to place her in a geriatric room in a nursing home for observation until a bed opens up.

Hopefully we can get that accomplished. Then we'll all get some semblance of our lives back. We're all frayed at the edges right now -- snapping at each other as we try to figure out how to get our mother the medical help she needs.