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My mother is bedridden and has lived with me since 2020 when she first became too weak to walk or stand. Over the past four years, she has been remarkably “with it” at times, but dementia has crept in and sometimes made conversations with her confusingly funny. Anyway, the other day she was reciting family member names and birthdays over and over. When she got to my Dad, she remembered that I just moved him from his home to an AL here so that they could see each other more often. She asked what the place was called again. I said assisted living. She happily said: Oh that’s right, “existence living” !!! That about sums it up I think!

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Funny--and we do have to look for the humor wherever we can find it, don't we?
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That's cute, this should be in discussion, start a new thread, on the funniest things are dementia loved ones say.
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Ha! That's very cute.

It reminds me of when my son was a little boy and was trying to sing a church hymn at his bedtime routine entitled "He is Exhaulted" but it came out as "He is Exhausted".

Humor is always helpful! I'm going to recommend this thread be moved to Discussions by the admins where more people will find it.
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Aww that’s cute ..😂😂

My sister was placed in long term care last week .

She keeps texting me that she’s “ going to start a revolution because they give the men bigger meal portions “ . I seriously doubt that . She has frequent delusions . So I told her to just ask for more if she’s still hungry .

Last night she texted me that at dinner she started her “ revolution “ and told them she wants a man’s food portion and that the other women in the dining room started to say it too . ( Mind you my sister imagines people saying things, and processes what she hears inaccurately frequently .)

My nephew ( her son ) said he’s tired of hearing she’s going to start a revolution for every little thing , even though it was a bit funny when she first started to say it when she was in the hospital and then rehab .
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newbiewife 5 hours ago
How old is your sister? If she came of age in the mid-late 1960s we were all about revolution in those days. Power to the people! (I'm 82)
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I am old enough to remember Art Linkletter and his "Kids Say The Darndest Things". It's true. The young and the old, both are the best artists out there if given a set of paints, and both do say things that just tickle you completely.
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When I took my mom for a drive, she noticed political signs. She remarked that the real estate agent surely had a lot of clients
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waytomisery 55 min ago
Aww, That’s funny .
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