Adventures in dementia land
Oi Vey. I don't mean to trivialize Altzhiemers, but really it has it's advantages over it's cousin Senile Dementia. The stuff she doesn't remember, now she just blames Felon Spice for. Seriously. She really thinks, and believes that she isn't the only one eating the doughnuts, or the rolls I bought just for her, or the Ice cream I bought just for her, or the pwder coffee creamer that I buy just for her (we preferr the liquid flavored creamers) or her nasty ass Lactaid that I most definitely buy JUST FOR HER. Because frankly I'd have to die of dehydration if that was the last thing on earth to drink.
These are things she honestly believes, I can't convince her otherwise. No rational arguement can be made, because her final answer to everything is, I don't know everything, in fact I'm a moron. Or Idiot, or something mumbled under her breath, I really don't care.
Now today, she is not the one who put (her) dirty laundry on top of her clean laundry in the laundry basket, it was not her that left a half glass of wine & a bagel w/ butter in a bowl along with her Oil of Olay (still in the box) cream on the mantle of my fake fireplace. it was NOT HER who keeps dumping garbage out my back sliders onto the porch, or abandoned her bed room slippers in the back yard. Even after showing her the mentoes wrappers, that she alone eats.
No evidently Felon Spice is doing it. Is sneaking in the room and doing shit. Cuz you know her and the boyfriend, that's all they have to do. The fact that she has a Wii, a computer (2 actually), and an iPod but all she has to do is fuck w/ grandma's stuff. Riiiight.
yah, really I can't get her to go in that room for me unless I offer cash, and frankly you couldn't get her to empty a garbage can if you told her there was a $20 at the bottom of it. Mostly she just wants to avoid her grandmother, trying to stay under the radar if she can't concoct some excuse to be out of the house. Actually that might explain her sudden motivation to find a job. Old Navy finally let her go, well they didn't put her on the schedule anymore. Which sucks, but really who wants to work somewhere where your weekly hours are based on how many suckers people you can scam convince to get that high interest lovely Old Navy credit card? Seriously, in this economy do you really want these folks to get a ton of your stuff on credit?
So I don't know who's doing all this stuff *snort* but it isn't my mother. Oh no. Even though I told her a week ago when I bought the ice cream cones, she had one. Fine. Then after she went to bed she tried to get a second one, saying she hadn't had one, even though there was chocolate on her mouth and the front of her night gown. I sent her back to bed. Twice. But on Tuesday she informs me that the icecream is gone (only 4 cones mind you) and it ..... >drum roll<
That's right kiddies
IT ISN'T HER.
*eye roll* And you can tell she's out of it, when its happening, she has that half awake look, her speech is just a tad slurred, and she's looking for her bedroom, the upstairs, or a combination of both. That is unless her room is full of children, then she's just looking to escape.
Bad daughter that I am, I often fantasize about the day she doesn't remember me. Donning a large hat, over coat and fake moustache, I'm dumping her in the nearest nursing home signing her in under an assumed name and getting the heck outta dodge.
I had started looking at prices for round trip tickets for her to maybe visit back home, give me a two or three week break.
I changed my mind.
I'm now looking at one way tickets... Caller ID they can call all the like, I aint answering.
ugh
I may have to consider not working next year if this keeps up, if for no other reason than I can stay up late and corral these midnight jaunts. If nothing else take pictures and show her doing her crazy ass shit.
Which will not endear me to my boss. Who probably isn't happy with me anyway. One employee today came in to announce he's retiring, he was giving notice for March 29, but may stay until May just to keep from getting a new person for two months then going on vacation. Then the server tells us that her main job, (being our server is her pt job, her extra cash to play with) at the school board is changing. She was working night shift, I think something like 5 - 11 or something, but to save money the school board buliding will shut off all lights etc.. at 8pm. So she must now go in at noon, she works with us until 1:30pm. My boss wants me to trade, I do 9:30-1:30, Mare would do my job and leave at 11. Only thing is server is harder work, plus not like I can take a break at all in those 4 hours, and while I occasionally don't take my break doing this job, I try to because when I don't I definitely pay the price later in the day. Lastly, I make all my mother's appts after 12pm, the VA doesn't make appts after 4, and they really don't like to schedule much after 3, and labs often are fasting which can only be in the morning. Right now I sweet talk them into noon because I know I can tell her not to get up untill 11 and she can fast for that hour, she almost never gets up before I get home anyway unless she has an appt. Lots of days it's after 2 or 3 o'clock. And miz hyprocondrac (sp?) rarely goes more than a month with out some kind of appt. Next month she has a lab, & dr. appt on the 2nd, a dentist appt on the 5th and another dr. apppt on the 13th all on or before 2pm. I could not make them leaving work at 1:30, not get home, get her in the car which is always a extravaganza because she always forgets her glasses or water or even cane.... like she doesn't know she's going somewhere? Then drive down to Viera.
The boss got kind of a 'tude with me, at one point saying, gee if I *really* wanted to ensure my job I'd take the server position, because if anything gets cut it will be the morning Cashier. I told her threats weren't going to change my situation.
So it may be a non issue anyway. We shall see.
These are things she honestly believes, I can't convince her otherwise. No rational arguement can be made, because her final answer to everything is, I don't know everything, in fact I'm a moron. Or Idiot, or something mumbled under her breath, I really don't care.
Now today, she is not the one who put (her) dirty laundry on top of her clean laundry in the laundry basket, it was not her that left a half glass of wine & a bagel w/ butter in a bowl along with her Oil of Olay (still in the box) cream on the mantle of my fake fireplace. it was NOT HER who keeps dumping garbage out my back sliders onto the porch, or abandoned her bed room slippers in the back yard. Even after showing her the mentoes wrappers, that she alone eats.
No evidently Felon Spice is doing it. Is sneaking in the room and doing shit. Cuz you know her and the boyfriend, that's all they have to do. The fact that she has a Wii, a computer (2 actually), and an iPod but all she has to do is fuck w/ grandma's stuff. Riiiight.
yah, really I can't get her to go in that room for me unless I offer cash, and frankly you couldn't get her to empty a garbage can if you told her there was a $20 at the bottom of it. Mostly she just wants to avoid her grandmother, trying to stay under the radar if she can't concoct some excuse to be out of the house. Actually that might explain her sudden motivation to find a job. Old Navy finally let her go, well they didn't put her on the schedule anymore. Which sucks, but really who wants to work somewhere where your weekly hours are based on how many suckers people you can scam convince to get that high interest lovely Old Navy credit card? Seriously, in this economy do you really want these folks to get a ton of your stuff on credit?
So I don't know who's doing all this stuff *snort* but it isn't my mother. Oh no. Even though I told her a week ago when I bought the ice cream cones, she had one. Fine. Then after she went to bed she tried to get a second one, saying she hadn't had one, even though there was chocolate on her mouth and the front of her night gown. I sent her back to bed. Twice. But on Tuesday she informs me that the icecream is gone (only 4 cones mind you) and it ..... >drum roll<
That's right kiddies
IT ISN'T HER.
*eye roll* And you can tell she's out of it, when its happening, she has that half awake look, her speech is just a tad slurred, and she's looking for her bedroom, the upstairs, or a combination of both. That is unless her room is full of children, then she's just looking to escape.
Bad daughter that I am, I often fantasize about the day she doesn't remember me. Donning a large hat, over coat and fake moustache, I'm dumping her in the nearest nursing home signing her in under an assumed name and getting the heck outta dodge.
I had started looking at prices for round trip tickets for her to maybe visit back home, give me a two or three week break.
I changed my mind.
I'm now looking at one way tickets... Caller ID they can call all the like, I aint answering.
ugh
I may have to consider not working next year if this keeps up, if for no other reason than I can stay up late and corral these midnight jaunts. If nothing else take pictures and show her doing her crazy ass shit.
Which will not endear me to my boss. Who probably isn't happy with me anyway. One employee today came in to announce he's retiring, he was giving notice for March 29, but may stay until May just to keep from getting a new person for two months then going on vacation. Then the server tells us that her main job, (being our server is her pt job, her extra cash to play with) at the school board is changing. She was working night shift, I think something like 5 - 11 or something, but to save money the school board buliding will shut off all lights etc.. at 8pm. So she must now go in at noon, she works with us until 1:30pm. My boss wants me to trade, I do 9:30-1:30, Mare would do my job and leave at 11. Only thing is server is harder work, plus not like I can take a break at all in those 4 hours, and while I occasionally don't take my break doing this job, I try to because when I don't I definitely pay the price later in the day. Lastly, I make all my mother's appts after 12pm, the VA doesn't make appts after 4, and they really don't like to schedule much after 3, and labs often are fasting which can only be in the morning. Right now I sweet talk them into noon because I know I can tell her not to get up untill 11 and she can fast for that hour, she almost never gets up before I get home anyway unless she has an appt. Lots of days it's after 2 or 3 o'clock. And miz hyprocondrac (sp?) rarely goes more than a month with out some kind of appt. Next month she has a lab, & dr. appt on the 2nd, a dentist appt on the 5th and another dr. apppt on the 13th all on or before 2pm. I could not make them leaving work at 1:30, not get home, get her in the car which is always a extravaganza because she always forgets her glasses or water or even cane.... like she doesn't know she's going somewhere? Then drive down to Viera.
The boss got kind of a 'tude with me, at one point saying, gee if I *really* wanted to ensure my job I'd take the server position, because if anything gets cut it will be the morning Cashier. I told her threats weren't going to change my situation.
So it may be a non issue anyway. We shall see.