Mother in law myth

[prichard]

My mother had similar paranoia, Alan.

That was really the worst of the dementia, her fears were very real to her.

But back to the topic there were some absolutely hilarious time with both her and dad.

My uncle had no idea where he was or anything but was always laughing and smiling and having a great time. If I get it I sure hope I get that variety.

 

[BHD]

we were at a family gathering with my MIL, and my SIL told a joke he had heard,

a guy was looking out this window and saw a car was driving down the road and it hit a rabbit and the rabbit was knocked into the ditch along side of the road, the driver saw that and backed up and went to the trunk and pulled out a spray can, and picked up the rabbit and just covered the rabbit with the spray, and then laid the rabbit down on the road and a few seconds went by, and the rabbit jumped up and rand off down the road but would stop and wave back at the guy, this went on as long as one could see the rabbit, the guy was happy and threw the can in the ditch and took off in the car,
the guy watching out the window when out to see what was in the can, and found the can of spray and it was labeled "Hair spray with permanent wave".

the family smiled and then my MIL said she had heard about that stuff on the tv news that morning, and went on telling us that she thought it must be amazing stuff we all about split a gut,

 

[Travelover]

This brings back a very sad memory, though I guess it is funny in retrospect. My FIL's dementia progressed pretty fast and he was placed in a nursing home. One day my MIL came to visit him and he greeted her with another dementia patient whom he introduced as his new wife. Ouch.

 

[Jstpssng]

When my father was in the early stages he went down to get his haircut at the same place he had been going since he was growing up. It took forever for him to get back home, and my mother was starting to get worried. When he walked up the driveway and into the house she asked "what happened to your truck?" He had forgotten that he drove to the barber shop, and walked 5 miles home just as he had when he was a teen.

 

[bunyip]

When my father was in the early stages he went down to get his haircut at the same place he had been going since he was growing up. It took forever for him to get back home, and my mother was starting to get worried. When he walked up the driveway and into the house she asked "what happened to your truck?" He had forgotten that he drove to the barber shop, and walked 5 miles home just as he had when he was a teen.

I did that when I was about 21

 

[4570Man]

My mother had similar paranoia, Alan.

That was really the worst of the dementia, her fears were very real to her.

But back to the topic there were some absolutely hilarious time with both her and dad.

My uncle had no idea where he was or anything but was always laughing and smiling and having a great time. If I get it I sure hope I get that variety.

My Grandma passed away this year and suffered with Alzheimer’s for about a year. She also did that. Some of the things I can think of was she was convinced all white cars were government spies out to get her. She continually unplugged her cable box then complained it didn’t work because she thought the government was spying on her through it. She thought grandpa rented the truck to Mexicans to sleep in and worried all hours of the night about that. That later progressed to Mexicans in the woods, garage, and spare bedroom. She hoarded up huge collections of junk mail because she thought it was important documents. She only trusted one of her sons to take care of that. It’s a terrible disease with that’s much worse than what I listed.

 

[bunyip]

My father cut my brother out of his will and I received everything, there are only the two of us, my brother was made aware of this and to save any legal disputes I took everything and split it when it was all settled.
Fortunately there are no death duties/taxes here.

 

[ultrarunner]

I take it one day at a time... Mom has better days and not so good days.

I have noticed she is not as filtered as the Alzheimer's progresses... the other day there was a huge woman... really huge and mom said the fat was just hanging from her so others could hear at the super market...

They don't call it the long goodbye for nothing...

 

[Travelover]

.........I have noticed she is not as filtered as the Alzheimer's progresses.............

Had a real problem with this when my great aunt was in a nursing home. She was always a racist, but once the dementia progressed she started saying really terrible things to the black staff at the nursing home and her care really suffered as a result. We eventually had to move her to a Catholic nursing home where the staff was predominately white.

 

[ultrarunner]

Lucky for me... Mom has always been kind with a big heart... but she had no compunction saying the lady was fat...

If someone visits... she will ask them a dozen times in a 20 minutes if she can get them something... not having remembered she had already asked.