Comic relief

forbarbara

Doctor: Do you know why you’re here?

MIL: It was highly recommended.

Marta

🥴

forbarbara

MIL (after getting bathroom assistance) : I don’t like having people in the bathroom with me. Maybe it’s my ego.

forbarbara

MIL (after a nasty tirade directed at me): Am I being a pain in the ass?

harshedbuzz

Keep 'em coming.

Jo C.

Upon hearing a relative and me laughing out loud at something, my mother in a cranky voice: "Oh for Pete's sake; don't have an organism!"

forbarbara

Jo C, I love it!

SusanB-dil

Q: Why will you not use your cane, as the doctor has recommended?

Actual answers we get: It makes me look old. It trips me up. I only need it when I fall. It hurts my arm. It is antique and is not meant to be used. (I highly doubt the aluminum one is antique...)

forbarbara

MIL after remembering, with a great deal of assistance, how to drink from a straw: “this is really handy. We should have some of these at home.”

Ci2Ci

Talking to my mother at nursing home, by phone:

LO: What are you doing these days?

Me: Just working on a movie in Los Angeles.

LO (louder): Oh, you are working on a movie?

Me: Uh, yes, I've done that for years.

LO (whispering): I know, I was just trying impress the people around me.

Jeanne C.

My DH has been reading to me from his book about horses. He covered foals and stallions. When he got to the next paragraph he said, "oh no, I don't even want to think about geldings."

forbarbara

Me neither!

forbarbara

MIL and I are hanging out in the MC dining area when the kitchen staff starts settling up for dinner.

MIL: can I help you with that?

staff: no thanks, you just sit there and look pretty.

MIL: (long pause) I think I know how to do that.

storycrafter

Thanks for sharing all of these! Bless you all....

forbarbara

On Tuesday my MIL was very annoyed that I came to visit and told me she was too busy to see me. Today (Thursday) she said “I’m so glad you’re here. I haven’t seen you in months and months”!

Anonymousjpl123

These are gold.

forbarbara

So I was just posting to Quiltingbringscalm on this forum, who is back at the ER with her mother. And I got to thinking: she’s been to the ER with her LO multiple times, as have I and probably most of you who read this.

It’s not our first rodeo. Does that make us rodeo clowns??

Jeanne C.

https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/190432#Comment_190432

Rodeo clowns! That's perfect.

forbarbara

Yesterday one of the CNAs at MIL’s MC asked if we were friends or family. I was curious how MIL would respond, because she’s not always sure who I am. She thought for awhile and said “I think we're both”. That’s a little nugget I’m going to carry with me for a long time.