October 18, 2019

4:00 PM – I was up at the hospital today getting a few tests done and when I got home, Mom had cabinet doors above the oven open and was shoving everything from that cabinet into the cabinet she keeps her canned goods. She was putting cans into bowls just to get everything to fit, leaving the cabinet above the stove empty. When I asked her why she was doing that, she said, “I’m just putting everything back.” Back where? I asked her what was wrong with leaving the bowls in the cabinet they were in, she said “I didn’t touch anything up there.” The cabinet doors were still wide open! I started pulling bowls etc back out of her soup cabinet and she’s getting pissed because “I didn’t take anything out of there!”

So anyway, I got things put away and by this time, I’m pissed, too. I drug a box that’s been sitting near the back door since we moved in here right in front of her and yelled, “you want to sort through something, sort through this!” She’s sorting through that now, FINALLY.

In other news, during her last checkup last week, I think the Dr. knows just how short term her short term memory is as well. It’s practically non-existent it’s so short. Funny thing is, it’s been about 10 minutes since I yelled at her and I can hear her out in the kitchen mumbling about how she would have had her mouth washed out with soap if she had talked her mom like that. I know, I shouldn’t have yelled, but nothing seems to get through. There’s no reasoning ability, no short term memory etc. The reasoning ability, that shows from her decision to stuff her cabinet with other things so she can’t fit any more of her soups in there. How is this a good idea? And she does stuff like this all the time! I never know where I’m going to find things when I get home from work. It’s pretty irritating and it gets to ya after a while, so I yelled.