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!