For all we go through dealing with our elderly loved ones sometimes they say or do something so outrageous it's hard not to get a kick out of it. Mom informed me at our last visit that she was going to move to Oklahoma. Not only does mom not know a soul from there, she has never even visited there. She has barely been off the East Coast. I have no idea what brought this up, but she informed me she is no longer happy at her MC and was going to be moving and Oklahoma would be her new home. She also said she wants to play the stock market for fun. Mom is wheelchair bound, partially incontinent, hard of hearing, losing her eyesight and mentally ill, not exactly the best candidate for starting over in a new state alone. What has your loved one said or done that brought a laugh (though not in front of them) to your week?
The best one by far though is when she was up at 4 am one time when she lived with us and had all the lights going. I walk in and most of her belongings have been moved from her room to the guest room across the hall. I said, why did you move? And she says because the police are on the way (she had no access to a phone). So I ask why and she tells me she found a body in “that room”. Completely non-plussed by it but I guess needed to get out of the way. She lays down and goes back to sleep, at lunch she is mad as hell because somebody “took all of her stuff to another room!”
In the hospital one time, Dr’s came by for rounds. After telling them she was 21, when they walked away she said she was having a baby!
We embrace the humor in it all because we can’t survive it otherwise.
Your mom is in a facility, right? I’ll bet this is what happened…. one of the streaming services was recently running musicals on a constant rotation nonstop…. Flower Drum Song, Carousel, Damn Yankees and both the 1950s & the newer Oklahoma! (with hottie Hugh Jackman). Someone at her MC was watching it. Became an earworm for her.
One person in particular was a handsome German man who she described as having really good posture (I don't know where this came from). He was a younger man in his 70s (she was 94) and he came to visit her every day, She was delighted with his visits but told him she was married and her husband lived down the hall and to be careful not to be seen.
She lived in that apt until she was 90, and still referred to the other women as the old biddies as if she was always 68 .
Although it hasn't happened this week, my mom, who is age 97 1/2 and has cognitive problems that are worsening, still remembers that she doesn't like her first name and never has. Her name is one that has become very popular in recent years, so when I hear about babies that have it, I tell her, and I appreciate that this brings out this bit of her self: being annoyed with her parents for giving her the name. (She doesn't get mad.)