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Doctor: Do you know why you’re here?
MIL: It was highly recommended.
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MIL (after getting bathroom assistance) : I don’t like having people in the bathroom with me. Maybe it’s my ego.
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MIL (after a nasty tirade directed at me): Am I being a pain in the ass?
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Keep 'em coming.
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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!"
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Jo C, I love it!
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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...)
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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.”
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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.
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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."
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Me neither!
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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.
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Thanks for sharing all of these! Bless you all....
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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”!
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These are gold.
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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??
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Rodeo clowns! That's perfect.
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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.
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Commonly Used Abbreviations
DH = Dear Husband
DW= Dear Wife, Darling Wife
LO = Loved One
ES = Early Stage
EO = Early Onset
FTD = Frontotemporal Dementia
VD = Vascular Dementia
MC = Memory Care
AL = Assisted Living
POA = Power of Attorney
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