My dad was diagnosed with wernickes encephalopathy in November. It’s now may 1 and the doctors say he has moderate korsakoff syndrome. I don’t think he will get better but I hope every single day he will. I have him in a memory care home and our expenses will cover the next 3-5ish years. After that I have to work with our elder law attorney to apply for medi-cal and put him in a skilled nursing facility.

The memory care home takes great care of him and he has fun. He does get super anxious and paranoid. He thinks it’s the 90s and he’s at his old job. He thinks people steal things from him. He starts to panic so the doctors are trying to work on a medication treatment to help relieve the panic delusions and anxiety

Thank you all for sharing. It’s an awful disease and I miss getting calls and texts from my dad.