But I can't deny the fact that she drives me crazy. It's a form of mental illness. She really can't help it. She had delusions before the operation, but they were more paranoid. The tumor was probably growing for about 10 years.
Tumors usually have to be quite large to cause personality changes.
The decision to move her mother out of an assisted living facility into the apartment was risky, said Lynn-Marie Carty, who was told her mother would probably never see again or be able to care for herself. All that's gone now. She needs a lot of attention, but she can walk across the street to the beach. Physically, Kay Carty is healthy and could live for years. It wasn't meant to be perfect.