Month: July 2019

9:00 PM – Mom usually doesn’t answer the phone, but tonight she decided to for some reason. We normally let it go to voicemail because of the robo-calls. I was out in the garage and she came out and handed me the phone. The person on the other end told me that Mom had pledged to donate $20.00 towards some kind of Actor’s Stage Fund, or something of the sort (it was hard to hear her). Fortunately, Mom no longer has access to her checkbook or debit card, which is why she handed me the phone. I told the lady on the other end that No, she would not be donating and that she has Alzheimer’s and is not allowed to make commitments on the phone like that. Since it was hard for me to hear the lady on the other end, I can only imagine that Mom couldn’t hear her at all and was committing to something she had no clue about. Scary!

7:15 PM – Mom seems to have a new obsession these days… Ants! I’ve seen her outside the back door a few times and she’ll just start stepping on them. The times I’ve spotted her doing that, there’s only been a couple of ants. This evening I got up to go out to the garage and seen the cabinet doors open under the sink. I got out to the garage and things had been moved around. I went back and looked by the back door and she had dumped something in a couple of spots (I later discovered that wasp spray had been moved from under the sink to the garage, so I’d say that’s what she used on the ants.). I looked around and I seen 3 ants walking around. I don’t know how many she thinks she’s seeing, but it seems she thinks we have an ant problem. Hopefully she doesn’t see the groundhog I spotted a few weeks ago or we’ll be going through that again as well as the ants!

4:00 pm – Mom is once again confused as to whether I am her brother or her son. She knows us four boys’ names, but can’t seem to wrap her brain around the fact that we are her sons. This is pretty unusual at this time of day. The confusion seems to happen more when she wakes up in the middle of the night.

A couple of new annoyances: Lately she’s been going out to the garage and grabbing old towels and washcloths that I have out there for rags and is washing them. (They were already clean and on shelves.) It seems she’s always doing a partial load of laundry now. Together with leaving the water running, this should make for some hefty water bills! The other annoyance is that she keeps adding things to the hand soap dispensers other than the Soft Soap that I have refill bottles of under each sink! She’s added water, dish soap and even hair conditioner. I can’t get her to understand that’s what the refill is for. Right now there some weird looking floaties and what looks like dish soap in the one at the kitchen sink, even though I had just cleaned it out and topped it off a couple of days ago!