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forbarbara
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Doctor: Do you know why you’re here?

MIL: It was highly recommended.

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  • Marta
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    🥴

  • forbarbara
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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.

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

  • harshedbuzz
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    Keep 'em coming.

  • Jo C.
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    edited August 2023

    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
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    Jo C, I love it!

  • SusanB-dil
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    edited August 2023

    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
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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.”

  • Jeanne C.
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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."

  • forbarbara
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    Me neither!

  • forbarbara
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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.

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

  • forbarbara
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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”!

  • Anonymousjpl123
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    These are gold.

  • forbarbara
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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??

  • Jeanne C.
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    https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/190432#Comment_190432

    Rodeo clowns! That's perfect.

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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