Chicken Kissing
Mom’s AL community held a breast cancer fundraiser this morning. While the event was in planning mode, the general manager (GM) told his staff that should they collectively raise $1000, he’d kiss a chicken. My daughter called me immediately to ask if I would provide the bird. I said I’d provide two. Chickens are very […]
Visiting my Former MIL, Day 2 (edited)
From getting up until I left, Jane was in the same ‘frame of mind’ she’d exhibited last night. She asked me what I wanted for breakfast, literally, three time in 30 seconds, and then took 7 minutes to get a piece of toast underway for her own breakfast as she continually self-distracted herself. After breakfast […]
Evening with my Former MIL
I arrived at my former mother-in-law’s, Jane’s, late this afternoon, after meandering here via a complete and relaxed stroll through the same garden I took my NY family to in June, a stop for lunch in a tiny historic town, complete with a quilt shop and some early Christmas shopping, and another quilt shop stop […]
Roomba 3 (Sewing Machine 2)
After running through many a diagnostic with a tech last week, it was determined that both Roombas were dead, for different reasons. One went down to actual robotics, and the other to battery corrosion, which cleaning to the best of my pretty darn good ability, didn’t fix. We even swapped the robot’s batteries (Dr. Frankenstein […]
Where are we on the path?
Last week I learned more about why a dementia patient confabulates, and how confabulation usually developes, and then fades. As I’ve shared before, confabulation takes place when the patient remembers only pieces of an event, and then fills in the gaps they don’t recall in order to share a complete story. This is why mom’s […]
Mom’s latest version of her medical persecution complex…
I returned two phone messages that mom left this afternoon. She wanted her brother’s contact information as his birthday is approaching. When she answered the phone, I greeted her with “Hi Mom, I’m returning your call!” She asked the expected, “Oh! What did I want?!” We discussed her brother’s birthday, and then wandered down a […]
10,000
Today’s milestone is regarding the readership of this blog. There have been 10,000 page views as of this morning! As I’ve mentioned before, this blog is about chronicling my mother’s path, and providing some serious therapy for me. I’m humbled to see readership more than double since the beginning of the year. No, we care […]
TV Guide
My daughter asked me to find out if the TV Guide of old was still available. Mom has been unable to find such a publication on outings to the grocery or drug store, and she is unable to learn how to navigate the television’s on board veiwing guide, despite several attempts at showing her how […]
Roomba 2
Mom’s Roomba is stuck in its fast orange blinking light, battery charging phase. Makes me wonder who it’s trying to summon! 😜 Our Roomba, after 18 hours of charging, moved 18 inches across the floor, and then sent out a distress signal. It didn’t travel far enough to exhibit its limp. Calling the manufactuerer is […]
Canning
Putting food by resonates deep in my soul. Childhood examples set by my parents from gardening, to raising sheep, to making poultry stocks that were turned into soups with ingredients gathered on hikes, to fishing and crawdad catching, all lead to my strong drive to fill the freezer and larder with provisions, but it’s more […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 