"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ~Anton Chekhov "
Looking for quotes this one fits the time period we are in now. Mother continues to deteroirate. She has a hard time verbalizing now what she wants to say. She opens her mouth, stammers, stutters, slams her hands down on the table, the chair, her lap and says I can't say it. It is very hard to watch, as I am sure it is very hard for her as well. She will then say I will say it in a minute. We all go on our way and when she feels ready to speak, we come to her again and listen. She doesn't comprehend her insurance papers, cannot write a check anymore, at times is not capable of dialing the phone. She has become paranoid about her room and her things. She says that her granddaughter is going through her things, stealing money, fixes the tv purposely so it will not turn on and there by " punishing" her for the day leaving her without the tv. Every night when she turns it off, she hits 2 buttons and there by "fixing" it herself. I tell her things that she has said literally less than 3 minutes previously, and she says you are making that up. You are lying, You need your head examined. You just want me to look bad so you make up these things and say I've said them.
The sheer disagreeability at times is just overwhelming. She has said my daughter has hit her, I know she and my daughter butt heads but my daughter would never hit her grandmother. Therefore I can't leave her alone while she is out of school and I am still working in case Mother would say it happened again. She tells people on the phone what she " thinks " we have done to her. She tells cashiers that " I can't do anything right," which causes them to look at me like I am Satan.
She doesn't look like she has dementia, unless you look deep in her eyes. You can see that the light is fading and at times no one is home to recieve your call.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment