1:45 PM – I heard Mom talking upstairs and went up about half-way to see what I could hear. I thought I heard something about an evil voice and then heard, “That’s not true. She’s just trying to… (inaudible)” She then stood up, so I went up the rest of the way and asked her if everything was OK, that I heard her talking to someone. She said that she was just watching TV, so maybe she was hearing someone talking to her through the headphones again. She asked if I needed anything. I told her, “No, I was just checking on you since I heard you talking.” She just smiled and sat back down, content that I cared enough to make sure she was alright. I think the medication might be helping a little bit so far. I haven’t heard her talking when she comes downstairs and only heard her this time because the landing door was open and the landing acts like an echo chamber. It was quieter than it has been when she’s been talking to her invisible people.
2:05 PM – I guess we’re on a roll now! She came downstairs while I was in the kitchen and said, “Someone said they wanted to show me something down here. You didn’t hear anything?” I told her, “No. I’m out here quietly making a cup of coffee.” She shook her head, then said, “That sounds good. I’ll have a cup, too.”
2:20 PM – She tried to hand me the headphones and said, “The neighbors wanted to talk to you.” I told her those are for the TV, the neighbors can’t talk to me through those. She said, “They said something about finding 5 more pythons.” I tried to tell her that it’s too cold for pythons and she said, “That’s what I thought, too, but I’ve seen them and they’re big.” So, we’re back to pythons. Yay! She went back upstairs and I went up shortly after and tried again to convince her that there are no pythons. She’s insisting that she’s seen them slithering in the bushes and that the neighbors have told her they’ve seen them, too. I told her that it’s odd that they haven’t said anything about it to me since I live here as well. She said, “You don’t want to believe me, I don’t give a shit. All you’ve gotta do is go talk to the neighbors.” I can’t figure out why she’s so fixated on pythons. These false memories, like the neighbor’s told me this or that, is maddening! I swear she’s trying to make me as crazy as she is…. on purpose! lol
3:50 PM – Mom has gone out to the garage 2 times so far. This time I caught her out there and asked her what was going on. She said, “Someone told me they had some python meat they were going to share with us. They said they were going to put it in the little freezer I’ve got out there, but it doesn’t hold very much.” Umm, yeah. No freezer out there, just my cooler. She’s chatting again in the kitchen. I got told, “The neighbors wanted you to come over so you can see how they are cutting up the python meat.” I tried to tell her that all their cars are gone… there’s no one home. That didn’t matter to her. I asked her if that meant there were no more pythons and she said, “I just saw one out there (pointing out the window) earlier today.” Well alrighty then. *update* As I was writing the last couple of sentences, she walked outside and was heading over to the neighbor’s. I don’t think she made it to the door… she was already heading back when I went out to get her. This is getting old REALLY fast.
4:50 PM – I sat on the stairs listening to Mom having conversations with her invisible friends… until she was talking about me. She said, “If he’s killed someone again (again??), then maybe it’s time for him to be put to death.” I got up and confronted her right then. She then claimed that she didn’t say that. I told her that with threats like that, that maybe it’s time for her to move into a nursing home now. She again claimed that she didn’t say that. I came downstairs to write this and I can hear her talking again, so will go up on the stairs and listen in. I’d grab the phone, but I don’t think it would pick it up where she’s at and where I can sit and be unseen.
6:30 PM – I captured some video about an hour ago. It’s taken that long to transfer it from my phone to the computer and encode them to a smaller size. Anyway, If you don’t want to watch them, Mom is mostly going on about me. Apparently I’m on my way to work and I’m running from the cops. The shocking part is that I’m evidently a cop, too. I guess I’m in trouble for flipping her off. Yeah, I’m not proud of it, but it did happen once with the “I don’t wanna argue” crap. I didn’t hear anything about me being put to death this time. She also mentioned the pythons briefly and Jerry Feester was mentioned a few times. Jerilyn, your name was mentioned, well, almost. She called ya Geraldine this time. Anyway, you’ll probably have to turn your volume up to hear the first video and you will hear traffic go by. Here are the videos:
After the last video, she went downstairs to fix her supper, then went back upstairs where she’s been talking almost non-stop while I’ve been working on these videos.
10:15 PM – The conversations haven’t stopped. She’s been up and down the stairs about 3 times in the last hour. She will go to the bathroom and come out talking to someone. It seems like you’d want your friends to wait outside the bathroom while you do your business, but apparently not in her case. They just follow her right in apparently. I’ve got to work tomorrow night, so hopefully things are calm tomorrow.