Outside In A Nice Chair

[JinnyJoan]

my neighbour came up to me (next door) - she has had a lot of tragedy in the loss of family but loves this last sister

she told me this last sister ( I genuinely don't understand) but says the sister is having issues/problems with "vascular veins in her head".

These two sisters love each other.  Does this sister with the vascular trouble be having the start of dementia - sister talking to me was very upset and of course I wasn't asking any more questions.

 

Sister with the issues doesn't have children but does have a good bit of family - I am so sad if it is true.

Does anybody out there know  - thanks

[calmck]

She could possibly have vascular dementia

[calmck]

Vascular dementia is a general term describing problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, memory and other thought processes caused by brain damage from impaired blood flow to your brain. You can develop vascular dementia after a stroke blocks an artery in your brain, but strokes don't always cause vascular dementia.

[JinnyJoan]

omg - that makes me so sad 

[Buenchico]

"Vascular" simply means 'relating to blood vessels'.  So (since all veins are blood vessels anyway) "vascular veins" is somewhat meaningless.

I suspect that your neighbour is referring to vascular dementia
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vascular-dementia/
but she might perhaps be referring to something like temporal arteritis (which my friend had)
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/temporal-arteritis/

[bednobs]

Or a stroke.