CHAPTER 65
“I don’t understand.” Brad wondered why doctors had to make things so complicated. What was so hard about answering a simple yes or no question? “Does she or doesn’t she have dementia?”
“Well, it’s a little more complex than that.” The doctor sat on his little spinning stool and stared at his clipboard. “The screening test showed some conflicting information, not typical of what you’d see in dementia or Alzheimer’s patients. Her long-term memory is fine, which doesn’t mean a whole lot. I’ve seen patients in the last stages of dementia who can still recite their first phone number or rattle off the birthdates of all their siblings.”
So what? How did any of this apply to Grandma Lucy?
“As far as short-term, she did pretty well on that part of her screening too. If all I had wa
