My Mum used to talk on the phone for hours.
Even with Mum & Dad living behind us it wasn't unusual for Mum to ring me once or twice a day and still chat for over an hour, sometimes I would ring her
Mum would also ring her Aunt every week, and quite often I would be called to see if Mums phone was off the hook as people couldn't get through. No... just Mum on her 2 hr marathon
My how Alzhiemers has changed that
I still get the odd call. Mainly for " What am I doing today", " When are you bringing my tablets over" or " What time are we going shopping"
Although last night she rang to tell me she had been sneezing
... allergies, not a cold.
Sometimes if I call her, I can get a 5-10mn conversation but it goes round in circles, with lots of reassurances, and repeating myself.
Mum no longer rings her Aunt or any of her sisters. This has been for the past 2 yrs.
She tells me now that she doesn't know what to say. She can answer the phone fine.
One of Mums sisters rings about every fortnight, but she has told me that it is getting more and more difficult to knkw what to say also. She mainly talks about her grandchildren or the latest antics of one of their wayward brothers
I even bought Mum a new phone a few months back as she was having difficulty with her cordless portable one, with numbers pre programmed.
It has the top 10 peoples names besides a speed dial button. Mum finds it a lot easier to make a call, but it hasn't increased her desire to make one.