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Really Sad..... Posted: 11-09-07 12:34pm


there is this older woman that comes into were i work at like 10 times on my shift. 8 of those times she buys a hotdog. i was like there is no way she is eating that much but she doee she goes out to her car and eats it . sometimes she takes them home. a couple of time she sat in her car and ate it and came in and ask if we knew what happened to her hot dog. well the other day i was talking to her and she tells me she only comes and get a hotdog about once a week or every other week. there has to be something wrong with this lady. i wish she had family that would check on her.

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:36pm

chase4 wrote:

there is this older woman that comes into were i work at like 10 times on my shift. 8 of those times she buys a hotdog. i was like there is no way she is eating that much but she doee she goes out to her car and eats it . sometimes she takes them home. a couple of time she sat in her car and ate it and came in and ask if we knew what happened to her hot dog. well the other day i was talking to her and she tells me she only comes and get a hotdog about once a week or every other week. there has to be something wrong with this lady. i wish she had family that would check on her.

sounds like alhziemers

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:37pm

Emma2 wrote:

chase4 wrote:

sounds like alhziemers

thats what i was thinking

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:39pm


poor thing. does your town have a department of aging? They will usually investigate to see if she's being properly cared for and if not they can contact her relatives to care for her or send someone out for free...

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:41pm

tigresacanela24 wrote:

poor thing. does your town have a department of aging? They will usually investigate to see if she's being properly cared for and if not they can contact her relatives to care for her or send someone out for free...

how would i do that i dont even know her name but i could get her tag number

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:42pm

chase4 wrote:

tigresacanela24 wrote:

how would i do that i dont even know her name but i could get her tag number

if she comes at certain times they could watch out for her.. the tag thing might work too.

next time u see her ask her for her name.

Human Protective Services needs to check on her.

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:43pm


She sounds like she has schizophrenia.

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:51pm


nah it sounds more like dementia than anything else.

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:52pm

Ingi wrote:

She sounds like she has schizophrenia.

I was thinking dementia. Sounds just like a lady that lived at my building when I was still a property manager... She would do things like that all the time. Her diagnosis was dementia. Eventually they had to put her in a home so she could be cared for 24/7.

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:53pm


nah sounds more like alhziemers....(sP)? repetative behavoir like that is one of the 1st signs.

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:53pm


Poor lady

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:54pm

tigresacanela24 wrote:

Ingi wrote:

She sounds like she has schizophrenia.

haha Kay we said the same thing. Razz

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:54pm


i called the health department they gave me a number to some adult protection sevices and i left a message and gave them my work number to call me at today.

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:55pm


Good job, Jamie. This lady needs help. Poor thing.

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:55pm


That's good, I hope they can find her some help!

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:58pm


There was a lady who lived in the apartments I managed who was schizo. She did this same exact thing. Same. Exact. Thing. You'd ask her how her kitchen stove had been moved from her apartment and she wouldn't know. She couldn't tell you. She would say she couldn't tell you. But she was the only one there... How old is she? You can try to get her help, but if she has some mental problem (like schizo), no one can help her unless she asks for it.

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Posted: 11-09-07 12:58pm


If I'm not mistaken alzheimer's is a form of dementia...

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Posted: 11-09-07 13:00pm


Dementia comes with the alzheimers.

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Posted: 11-09-07 13:02pm

Ingi wrote:

There was a lady who lived in the apartments I managed who was schizo. She did this same exact thing. Same. Exact. Thing.

You'd ask her how her kitchen stove had been moved from her apartment and she wouldn't know. She couldn't tell you. She would say she couldn't tell you. But she was the only one there...

How old is she?

You can try to get her help, but if she has some mental problem (like schizo), no one can help her unless she asks for it.

The lady at my building would come down to pay her rent 7-10 times a day every single day because she couldn't remember that she had already paid her rent. Then she would come back and ask me if I received her rent check for the month because she didn't know what happened to it. She would swear that someone took it from her checkbook. She would also go to the store to buy a tv dinner about as often as she stopped in to pay her rent. I don't know if she ever ate them but I know she sure did buy them. Laughing

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Posted: 11-09-07 13:03pm

Ingi wrote:

Dementia comes with the alzheimers. Wink

ahhh... so that's how it goes...