(To have been posted last Wednesday, so that tells you how nuts my life is right now. Happy Reading!)
Yesterday was our first Early Onset Dementia support group we had one set up for 10 am and 6 pm... no one came :( But I have been told that it takes time to get these things started. Still I tried not to be too disappointed. We are hosting the meeting at a local assisted living facility who has an AMAZING director who has fallen madly in love with my mom. I have been trying to get Mom to volunteer up there some days during the week but she has been a little nervous about it. Last night as we waited for no one to show up Mom started chatting up some of the elderlly ladies. I love watching her interact with the elderly or special needs children. She has so much compassion for them and her nurse side definitely comes out. I could have watched her chat with them all night... however after 15 minutes or so she was ready to go. She said "These people aren't playing the same game, they aren't here for our meeting."
Mom's sense of humor is still very much alive and well. Maybe not quite in the same manner it was prior to being diagnosed but she still makes me laugh constantly when I am around her. Some of the words she chooses are so out of the blue that you can't help but laugh with her about her confusion. Yesterday Nana and Mom picked me up for lunch since I STILL don't have my car. Nana ordered ahead of Mom and I but they both ordered the same sandwich. While Nana was in the ladies room I went and picked up her salad and set it at her place. Before I could hardly turn around Mom had moved that salad to in front of her and was loading it up with dressing and taking a bite. I am talking Not 2 SECONDS People. She will probably be unhappy that I posted about this story but I laughed SO VERY Hard about it!
Friday night I went and spent the night with her and Nana again.. Drew had a lot to do on Saturday and I didn't want to be stuck at home without a car. So I get over there about 9:30 and they are sitting in the den watching March Madness... and I cant remember now what brought it up I am certain it had nothing to do with what she was trying to say but mom starts telling us about "this place we go eat and this man who has been in our lives forever" and "he makes good fried chicken" and then he has corn and "you walk right up and he gives us food" Nana and I are looking at each other completely baffled. I am naming off Perini's or Babes Chicken trying to think who in the world "this man" is that has known us forever and gives us fried chicken. Finally Nana says do you mean KFC and Mom says "YES!! That man on their sign that is the one in charge of the chicken!!" By the time we finally figured it out none of us could remember what started it all in the first place. Sometimes it is just fun to play a little guessing game!
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