This has been such a shitty year for you.
Oddly enough, it's been even worse for my sister. She's had her house broken into (lost her husband's saxophones & a bunch of other stuff), her dog died, she got shot at, and her oldest friend from childhood died suddenly a few weeks ago. And Mom.
Do the doctors think small strokes may have accelerated her situation? Man.
Maybe? We don't know whether it's strokes, or the dementia, or a change in the meds, or a reaction to the meds, or water on the brain, or what. It almost doesn't matter, at this point. I'm grateful we seem to have some skilled caregivers with a lot of experience.
But it's all still pretty shitty.