Dad was really down today. Mum was really concerned when she came on Skype. She told me he had sat in his chair all morning, not wanting to move. He usually follows her around the house, but not today. He was saying he couldn't stand his dementia anymore. Couldn't stand the chaos in his head. It made mum worried enough that she dug out an old joke book and read jokes to him to try to cheer him up. He understood a few but most of them were too involved for him to understand now.
He came to speak to me on Skype and I managed to cheer him up by playing some Irish folk songs on YouTube for him to listen to.
I spoke to mum and discussed talking to the doc about this latest development. Dad's never been like this before. He's been sad, cried, etc., but never said that he couldn't stand it any more. I suggested to mum that he might benefit from anti-depressants. For once, mum listened to me. I think his state shocked her out of her usual self-absorption. The trouble is that she has brainwashed him into thinking the psychiatric nurse is a monster, so he doesn't want to see anyone about his dementia now. Ironic because now she wants him to see someone and he doesn't want to due to what she said to him. She told him they would "take him away".
Well, as usual, I'll just have to see how this one plays out.
There's no end to it, is there? Except for the final curtain.
LS
He came to speak to me on Skype and I managed to cheer him up by playing some Irish folk songs on YouTube for him to listen to.
I spoke to mum and discussed talking to the doc about this latest development. Dad's never been like this before. He's been sad, cried, etc., but never said that he couldn't stand it any more. I suggested to mum that he might benefit from anti-depressants. For once, mum listened to me. I think his state shocked her out of her usual self-absorption. The trouble is that she has brainwashed him into thinking the psychiatric nurse is a monster, so he doesn't want to see anyone about his dementia now. Ironic because now she wants him to see someone and he doesn't want to due to what she said to him. She told him they would "take him away".
Well, as usual, I'll just have to see how this one plays out.
There's no end to it, is there? Except for the final curtain.
LS