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firstly sorry if i've posted here and not replied, i forget to check back for responses
i have been worried recently though about my grandma. she's in her early 80s and for the past few weeks [as odd as this sounds] she's been telling me, my mum and a few others that she knows exactly what they are going to say and what's going to happen in emmerdale and coronation street
apparently it's only those two tv shows and it's not so much the storylines but the words the actors are going to say/when someone's going to walk into a room etc. specific stuff she couldn't possibly know because she always watches them when they are first shown on itv and doesn't have the internet or cable or anything
anyway she's been saying this for 4-5 weeks now and i'm a bit worried she might be starting to have problems with her memory but if that was the case she'd be forgetting things not seeming to know things that haven't even happened?
i mean she's not had the best memory for the past 10-15 years since i was a kid but nothing more than a lot of older people i think it's fair to say and she hasn't come out with anything odd like this until now ..am i right to be worried?
anyway i'll definitely check back so any replies would be really appreciated.
i have been worried recently though about my grandma. she's in her early 80s and for the past few weeks [as odd as this sounds] she's been telling me, my mum and a few others that she knows exactly what they are going to say and what's going to happen in emmerdale and coronation street
apparently it's only those two tv shows and it's not so much the storylines but the words the actors are going to say/when someone's going to walk into a room etc. specific stuff she couldn't possibly know because she always watches them when they are first shown on itv and doesn't have the internet or cable or anything
anyway she's been saying this for 4-5 weeks now and i'm a bit worried she might be starting to have problems with her memory but if that was the case she'd be forgetting things not seeming to know things that haven't even happened?
i mean she's not had the best memory for the past 10-15 years since i was a kid but nothing more than a lot of older people i think it's fair to say and she hasn't come out with anything odd like this until now ..am i right to be worried?
anyway i'll definitely check back so any replies would be really appreciated.
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I'd tell her to get herself checked out. Obviously go with her and see what the crack is. Hopefully she's OK and its just a benign sign of old age. Good luck. I hope she's OK.
So tell her then. I saw a film once with John Travolta where he develops super powers but only because his tumour makes his brain do powerful things and then he's in bed with his wife at the end of the film and he says 'Its happening' and then he passes away.
Also does your Gran get papers with a free telly magazine? They often have a rundown of what is going to happen in the soaps for the forthcoming weeks.
There's nothing like scaring people with as yet an unsubstantiated claim.
Do these papers mention these programs have alternate endings and rehashed scripts.
Oh wait, your Dad would know this....
Not sure if those programmes are repeated as I never watch them, but it may be possible she has seen the original, forgot she's watched it, but then remembers certain lines within it, when she watches the repeat.
the story lines are rehashed and have been since the 1980s
I think this is something more like Deja Vue however - which is a brain phenomena
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu
Either that or start a thread. Deja Vous is often less effort
They only do that on special story lines.
And as I said my Dad is always wise after the event. Are you hard of understanding or just nasty?
Unfortunately though her 'repeats' mental state never went away. It was obvious that something must have happened when she was ill but nobody was able to give us any medical explanation as to what or why. So I would definitely recommend that you suggest your grandma has a medical check and has someone go with her. We found my mum was very good at appearing quite normal when with medical folk and, of course, as there are lots of repeats on TV they just assumed that's what she was talking about. All this didn't stop my mum from living to the grand old age of almost 96 though. Hopefully your grandma's state of 'deja vu' is just a temporary blip.
discuss it with her family . Involve the doctor and get her as much help as possible, if help is needed.