songbird

It's my mom with the suspected AD, but my dad seems to be slipping recently
too as far as memory and communication. You have to find the funny part
where you can.

He called the other night, and instead of launching right into his
question/complaint/concern as he usually does or identifying himself as
"It's your father" as he does on the rare occasions he thinks to do so, he
said, "This is Mark."

My first thought was, "I don't know anyone named Mark." (To me, even at 43,
his name is DADDY. I'm a good Southern girl.)

It took me a sentence or two to place the voice after that. Then I almost
burst out laughing at myself.

But it's also sad. As I told someone recently, these are not the people I
remember as my parents. These are very nice but befuddled older people,
"Mark" and his wife, and I just have to love them where they are. (And in
some ways they are easier to deal with than my parents ever were!)

Songbird

bdetrs

LoL....cute...B

ksera

lol---we do have to laugh & keep a sense of humor! It's upsetting
though when others give us strange looks for laughing ---some people
are too serious & think we are weird.

Always,

Char

gwen love

The following was posted in this NG a few years ago by a regular poster at
that time.

Sh said about a week after her mother died, she was making coffe one
morning when her dad came in the kitchen. He told her he had had a hard on
for two days; what could he do about it! She said she was usually not
stumped for words, but she was that time.
Gwen

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| "Songbird" <songbird2871@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:<bpit37$7dv0$1@news3.infoave.net>...
| > It's my mom with the suspected AD, but my dad seems to be slipping recently
| > too as far as memory and communication. You have to find the funny part
| > where you can.
| >
| > He called the other night, and instead of launching right into his
| > question/complaint/concern as he usually does or identifying himself as
| > "It's your father" as he does on the rare occasions he thinks to do so, he
| > said, "This is Mark."
| >
| > My first thought was, "I don't know anyone named Mark." (To me, even at 43,
| > his name is DADDY. I'm a good Southern girl.)
| >
| > It took me a sentence or two to place the voice after that. Then I almost
| > burst out laughing at myself.
| >
| > But it's also sad. As I told someone recently, these are not the people I
| > remember as my parents. These are very nice but befuddled older people,
| > "Mark" and his wife, and I just have to love them where they are. (And in
| > some ways they are easier to deal with than my parents ever were!)
| >
| > Songbird
|
| lol---we do have to laugh & keep a sense of humor! It's upsetting
| though when others give us strange looks for laughing ---some people
| are too serious & think we are weird.
|
| Always,
|
| Char

lee

My MIL once answered the phone and told the person on the other end (who was
actually asking for me} that she wasn't sure who he wanted.... "do you want
to speak to my husband? oh... wait... he's sleeping... here, talk to his
girlfriend"

That was also the day that she asked the dog if he wanted to go
out....repeatedly... and when he refused to answer - although he DID run to
the door and do his best to look eager - she said "I'm TALKING to you!
Ignorant little bastard!"

jancan

After Bertie reached a certain stage she took up cussing. This sweet
little lady who had always acted pretty much like a lady looked so
strange with all these "unfamiliar" words coming from her.
Kay

evelyn ruut

Ida used to talk nonstop. We used to get so tired of the continual
questions and inconsequential babble and delusional issues. Now she speaks
very seldom and only in a few words, though it is more meaningful and with
less of the delusional stuff. I really don't know if this is "good" or
not, because I think it means there is less mental activity. I do know
that the frustration level is nothing near what it was back when, and she is
easier to care for now. A dubious blessing I suppose.
--
Evelyn

(To reply to me personally, remove sox)

gwen love

Kay, my daddy did the same thing! He started cursing at me one day in the
NH and I just turned around and left.
Gwen

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Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back. If you smile at
it, it returns the greeting.
- Herbert Samuels


| After Bertie reached a certain stage she took up cussing. This sweet
| little lady who had always acted pretty much like a lady looked so
| strange with all these "unfamiliar" words coming from her.
| Kay