My mother is in a skilled nursing facility, vascular dementia, had a stroke that compromised her speech. About once a month she will have a day when she babbles on incoherently but earnestly on topics we can’t understand and then the next day she will be exhausted and sleepy from all the “activity.” I call them her “frenzied” days. Is this a common behavior of dementia? Cause?
As soon and the 'crisis' is over, I crash and burn. My daughter and her family just took 10 days to drive from VA to UT. The day they arrived safely, we saw them for about 4 hours, they went to their hotel and I crawled into bed and slept HARD for about 18 hours.
I may not show stress outwardly, but when the event is over, I crash. I think the same thing would apply to someone who has dementia.
This is totally normal. As I am still 'healing' from cancer, I will have a day here or there where I sleep all day. I've learned to deal with it and allow my body and mind the time to heal.