Wow she's inventive. Will she go hunting for them?
Why oh why, when mums world is collapsing around her, memory just shot to hell, [don't worry, not expecting any answers to this, it is what it is] but why when she forgets me, my sister, friends, does she still remember my brother. Every afternoon when the clock strikes one, she starts with the questions and pleads with me almost every minute to call him, or why hasn't he called, what do you think hes doing right now, why has he not come for his dinner and on and on, distraction does not work, can't go out for too long in case we miss his call. Her conversation all afternoon is when, why and how. At this moment, because we are expecting a call from him, her brain is telling her that he is coming over and so she is waiting at the garden gate. So here it is EVERYTHING else is being forgotten, but not her son.
It is what it is! That's the TRUTH!
Just always remember your own truth, your own heart....your mum knows that...she just can't comprehend his! She is so so confident with you that she feels able to say or do anything...safe in your love for her! Be proud you know in your heart that your heart is true....
Thank you Lemondrop, these days my mum is not as obsessive about my brother as she used to be, but it is still there. When he visits, which is usually every month, she only has to see him and for a little while after he leaves she talks about him, wanting to know when he will be back, but it does not last long. The thing that has lasted though is that my brother drives a white car and every white one we see she thinks is his and tries to get into it! Parked next to one last week and as we were returning to our car so was the owner getting into his white car, poor mum thought it was my brother and could not understand why he drove off leaving her with me.
I wonder is she trying to express enjoying her cup of tea and liking her jumper and getting the words wrong. Speaking of wrong I hope you are wrong and that she sleeps really well tonight. x
Well done on all that cleaning and tidying Tin, sorry it didn't last more than a day but at least, as you say, it is all clean underneath the mess.
I have to ask................did you find your slippers???!!!
hard to see all this as Dementia because she was like this before!
Well I suppose that can be seen as a positive - her personality is still there..... infuriating and exhausting though it is sometimes.
And I'm sorry they were ruined but I'm so glad you finally found your slippers, so frustrating when something seemingly vanishes into thin air and yet you know it must be somewhere..... and of course the worry of where exactly they've been put, are they causing havoc.... at least the woodpile was a 'safe' place in terms of further problems.