Dear All,
My father was horribly confused this afternoon and decided that it was time to go to bed at 2pm. Nothing I could say would deter him.
All reasonable arguments such as 'you've only just had lunch; it's time for our afternoon walk; it's still daylight' etc fell on totally deaf ears and he became very irritated. My mother wanted to go out for a walk and he became very annoyed with her as well. Eventually, he marched her off to the bedroom and tried to force her to get in to bed too - much against her will since she was in one of her lucid moments.
The outcome was that the more Mum became upset, the happier he became until he managed to turn the whole scenario on it's head and accused her of being silly in wanting to sleep during the afternoon and forcing him to do likewise...!!
Sometimes I feel like I am living in a very bad B Grade Movie.
Jude
My father was horribly confused this afternoon and decided that it was time to go to bed at 2pm. Nothing I could say would deter him.
All reasonable arguments such as 'you've only just had lunch; it's time for our afternoon walk; it's still daylight' etc fell on totally deaf ears and he became very irritated. My mother wanted to go out for a walk and he became very annoyed with her as well. Eventually, he marched her off to the bedroom and tried to force her to get in to bed too - much against her will since she was in one of her lucid moments.
The outcome was that the more Mum became upset, the happier he became until he managed to turn the whole scenario on it's head and accused her of being silly in wanting to sleep during the afternoon and forcing him to do likewise...!!
Sometimes I feel like I am living in a very bad B Grade Movie.
Jude