Although most of what my mother says is at best confusing she has occasionally said something that made me laugh despite myself. The one that sticks out was her request to "make sure we save the pee in the containers on the porch because the Morons are coming by later to get it." I still smile a little every time I think about it.
what does your mom mean by pee and morons ? I'm curious what it refers to?
So mom “fell” at least once a day.
Evidently, one day my mom wanted me to be the one who found her. Mom knew I was coming to visit after lunch but I hadn’t given a specific time.
So not knowing how long I’d be, she decided to take a pillow and blanket while she waited on the
floor in her room. Might as well be comfortable, right?
Now, that in itself was pretty
funny but what came later was priceless.
The NH had put a pretty strict “fall plan” into place back when mom was fake falling. She hated it - it was very restrictive. Hated it! So after a while she quit fake falling and the plan was stopped.
However - eventually mom began to fall for real. Never really a hard fall - more of sinking to the floor.
Whenever staff would go into my mothers room and find her on the floor my mom would snap “I didn’t fall, I was praying”.
Priceless.
I said, "whaa!aaaat? "
Mom gave me a " significant" look and pointed with her crooked arthritic finger at the water jug and arched her eyebrows knowingly.
It was hysterically funny and so very sad, all at once.
On another occasion we were attending my son’s Graduation from University. There was the most beautiful, elegant black woman sitting in front of us with the most amazing outfit and stunning green head dress. My mum shouts out in a quiet moment, “ Look at that woman!”
”I know,” says I, “Isn’t she beautiful?”
”And hasn’t she caught the sun?” remarks my mum.
You have to laugh. 🤭🤫🙄😲😂
"See?" She says."He was off getting into trouble." He says "That's bullsh*t!" I laughed even harder and rolled onto the floor. That was a most memorable hilarious visit with mom. I'm just sorry it wasn't all caught on video.
One day I told him yes and asked if I could watch him go up or down to bed and he started laughing. The last 2 years he slept in the living-room - so I just helped him to bed.
I went to help her with her bath one day (which she hated) and she said "Dr. L told me that whatever I do, i was to never ever take a bath under any circumstances! And if someone tried to make me, I have to call the police".
To this day we talk among the family that in the end if we wanted my mother to do something we just needed to offer her PIE. I never did learn her recipe for chili.
I came home with supplies for chili and asked Mom to show me how she made hers. She then starts talking again about the church supper. I tell her if she wants to go I’ll take her, “no that’s ok”. “Well you know it’s at your SIL church and they usually have PIE for dessert and Holly (SIL) makes a great PIE. I like PIE.” I think we had this conversation 3 times and I had already checked that they would take us at the door. Eventually she decided she would go and she got her PIE.
I told her I didn't know.
I remember that my late mom used to have a delusion about having sex with "someone," and was telling me about that. She told me that she was in boat having good time, but she couldn’t understand why she got in the boat. It happened after she was healing from the big fall in my garage.