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My mom is really worried about my stepdad.. I've already told her she needs to take him to a doctor but you practically have to knock him out with a frying pan and drag him to the ER to get him to go, so I'm hoping if we can get some rough idea what's wrong with him she can convince him he needs to go..
He's around 40, not overweight or under, good muscle tone, and when he was 19 he fell down a flight of stairs and hit his head, was in a coma for a week, and has sustained some "minor" brain damage, he cannot taste or smell, and he's partially deaf on his right side.
He is an appliance repair tech, out on calls from 8am to 6pm mon-fri.
The problems he's been having are semi-sudden (gradual over about a week or two) mood changes, from his normal easygoing self to a rage-filled anger-bomb waiting to blow, dizziness, memory loss/forgetfulness (he forgets how to spell basic words, he'll forget where he was going for his next call or what my mom just told him over the phone, a few times he's forgotten to eat all day to the point he came home in a hypoglycemic fit and went to the ER) slurred speech, loss of coordination (stumbling around, dropping things) basically he seems drunk out of his mind.. but he's not. These mostly happen when he's out and about during the day, but not on weekends/days off when he's out in the yard all day doing yard work and helping build the shed/porch with my granddad, though this may be because mom keeps him well hydrated, and he takes regular breaks to just sit and chat and calm down/cool off. He hates driving, so driving between the calls isn't much of a rest/relax time.
He is a recovering alcoholic (almost 2years sober), so mom can tell when he IS drunk and this is not it..
The suggestions put forth by my (admittedly hypochondriac) step-grandma (granddad's second wife, not stepdad's mom) are hypoglycemia, seizures, brain damage (like he fell and didn't tell someone or an appliance dropped on his head or something
) schizophrenia, or that he's on heroin.
I honestly don't have a clue what to think other than to probably rule out extra brain damage (I think my mom would notice a new knot on his head, he keeps his hair super-short) and heroin (he has always been very very vocal on how incredibly stupid people who do anything more than alcohol and tobacco are)
He's around 40, not overweight or under, good muscle tone, and when he was 19 he fell down a flight of stairs and hit his head, was in a coma for a week, and has sustained some "minor" brain damage, he cannot taste or smell, and he's partially deaf on his right side.
He is an appliance repair tech, out on calls from 8am to 6pm mon-fri.
The problems he's been having are semi-sudden (gradual over about a week or two) mood changes, from his normal easygoing self to a rage-filled anger-bomb waiting to blow, dizziness, memory loss/forgetfulness (he forgets how to spell basic words, he'll forget where he was going for his next call or what my mom just told him over the phone, a few times he's forgotten to eat all day to the point he came home in a hypoglycemic fit and went to the ER) slurred speech, loss of coordination (stumbling around, dropping things) basically he seems drunk out of his mind.. but he's not. These mostly happen when he's out and about during the day, but not on weekends/days off when he's out in the yard all day doing yard work and helping build the shed/porch with my granddad, though this may be because mom keeps him well hydrated, and he takes regular breaks to just sit and chat and calm down/cool off. He hates driving, so driving between the calls isn't much of a rest/relax time.
He is a recovering alcoholic (almost 2years sober), so mom can tell when he IS drunk and this is not it..
The suggestions put forth by my (admittedly hypochondriac) step-grandma (granddad's second wife, not stepdad's mom) are hypoglycemia, seizures, brain damage (like he fell and didn't tell someone or an appliance dropped on his head or something
) schizophrenia, or that he's on heroin. I honestly don't have a clue what to think other than to probably rule out extra brain damage (I think my mom would notice a new knot on his head, he keeps his hair super-short) and heroin (he has always been very very vocal on how incredibly stupid people who do anything more than alcohol and tobacco are)
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