February 28, 2020

4:45 PM – Mom has been really quiet today! The only things I’ve caught on camera is a couple of brief comments about banging and at about 4:00, she was doing a Find a Word puzzle, looked up and said, “All I’m doing is puzzles. It has nothing to do with my bank account.” She has been up and down the stairs 23 times from 8:00 AM to now (yeah, I counted it from the cameras… lol) While I don’t wake up every time she comes down the stairs, I’m sure the noise brings me up out of a deeper sleep, so I end up waking up almost as tired as I was when I went to bed. She was busy moving things around today in the kitchen, so I had to go around and put things back where I had them after I got up, but that’s pretty much normal these days. Hopefully she’s quiet tomorrow, too. I’ve got one more night to work after tonight, so will still need some sleep.

February 27, 2020

“Lamp above the headboard isn’t working right. Shannon’s trying to figure out what’s going on with it.” Except Shannon was at Wal-Mart picking up groceries for us at the time this was captured. Wave bye-bye. “Somebody curses me does not live here.” Walks into her room and starts talking (inaudible. Probably wondering if I’m done fixing her lamp yet.) It seems she went back to bed shortly after this.
Mom decided to pick up a crochet hook and some partial skeins of yarn and start crocheting at about 11:00 this morning and was quiet from that point until she reached this tangle, then the talking started. I have no idea what she’s making, she may not either, but it kept her mind occupied I guess.

4:15 PM – She worked on that tangle until 2:53 PM according to the time stamp, got some scissors and cut it out, then spend about 45 minutes messing with her lamp on her headboard and finally replacing it with my little black lamp. She eventually came downstairs and is now in the kitchen making pods for the single cup coffee maker… going on endlessly about me stealing her Echo, as if I would rather have that over my “Hot Red Camaro.” If it’s not me stealing it for myself, it’s me selling it to Veronica or Victoria and about how it’s worth more than what she bought it for. I’m just sitting out here trying to ignore it as best I can.

February 26, 2020

5:50 AM – Mom came down with a pissed off look on her face and said, “No I’m not chasing you out of here.” I just replied, “Whatever.” She went to the bathroom and when she came out, she was talking to another invisible friend and said that someone is trying to kill her. She came by and I told her that no one was trying to kill her. Nose went up and on up the stairs she went. Keep it up, Mom. While I won’t kill her, I won’t put up with the attitude much longer and she will find herself locked up in a nursing home. She’s just about got that hole worn through my patience.

12:45 PM – I got woken up by, guess who. So I started reviewing footage that started up at about 8:30 with her going up and down the stairs a bunch of times. She’s not really chatty yet, although She was loud in the kitchen a bit ago talking about someone wrecking her Echo and how it’s worth more than she bought it for. So far, the topics in the video have been the normal stuff, she’s allowed to have friends, the echo and a new one, Veronica/Victoria is trying to kill her now. Lots of hand gestures and finger pointing.

At around 3:20: “Oh for God’s sakes.” Rattles off address. Eye roll and “So you’d better watch him then because he might be trying to kill me so I can pay his gambling debts. Not very chatty, but couple of people trying to kill her.
Bought this house when he was little… At about 40 second mark, she has made up a story about the missing piano stool that she broke and I hid down in the basement several days ago. I kept this one because of the piano stool part.
She’s disappointed in me because she thinks I’m trying to sell her Echo, “To Victoria of all people. She’s the last person…” This explains why she came downstairs with an attitude and gave me a dirty look.
As I suspected, she’s still talking about me selling her Echo and this clip is where she gets up and comes downstairs to give me the dirty look.

1:43 PM – Caught up on reviewing clips. In other news, I got an email from State Farm that their underwriters are saying that I have to put up a railing around the deck by next February. The deck has never had a railing and now suddenly it needs one. Great. I don’t have the money or the skills to build one. *sighs*

That attitude is getting worse starting with closing the door harder than usual and going on about selling my “Hot Red Camaro.” I may not get back to sleep after all. She then watched her taking things out of other people’s purses at holiday get-to-gethers. “He had no right to sell it.” I’m just waiting for the stomping now.
Now I sold the house I guess. That’s theft. Then she was accused of stealing things out of people’s purses only to find out it was Victoria. Then I came upstairs and told her that it has not been sold. She flipped me off after I closed the door. Then after a bit, I had to have stolen her identity in order to sell the house. Back to selling it to pay my gambling debts.

5:40 PM – I don’t have time to go through any more clips as it’s time to get ready for work, but at one point, she came downstairs and pointed at me with an attitude, so I went out to the kitchen to find out what was going on. She tried the “As if you don’t know,” comment and when I pressed her, she finally said something about me selling the Echo. I open the back door and showed her that it was still there. She said, “Good boy.” I slammed the door and told her that was enough of that crap and went back out to try to sleep a little longer. Anyway, I probably won’t mess with going through clips tomorrow unless I hear her upstairs stomping or yelling.

February 25, 2020

11:30 AM – Mom has been strangely quiet so far today. I’m not getting my hopes up for the rest of the week, heck, for the rest of the day even. She has been up and down the stairs numerous times though. Her day started when she first came down at 8:28 (according to footage.) I’ve counted 8 times so far (including as I’m typing this.)

I have no idea who she’s talking to. I’m sitting in the living room the whole time. I can’t tell everything she’s saying, but I kept this clip because at about the 2:30 mark, you see her get up and motion someone to follow her. It seems she actually sees whoever she thinks she’s talking to.
Bye bye if you can’t control your mouths. If you’re police officers, shut your damned engines off. Shut Up! And we’re getting louder and she even pounded on a book that’s sitting in front of her. Unfortunately, the camera didn’t catch that. I had turned the sensitivity down because the flickering of the TV was triggering it when she wasn’t even upstairs.
She’s worked herself into tears and claims that I just killed a good friend of hers. For the record, I’ve STILL never killed anyone.. lol. Silence until 3:40 when she says something about water source for the Geiger area. 4:20 Apparently I was saying something to someone about wanting her dead so I could use her money to pay for a gambling debt. Only problem is, I don’t gamble, not even scratch off tickets! Oh, and I’ve never told anyone that I want her dead.
Just 5 minutes of random stuff, beginning with her referring to me in the past tense (she does this twice in this clip.) She also mentions the camera, so she’s aware that it’s there.

8:45 PM – The voices in her head won’t “stop it” unless I walk into a room it seems. She was just out in the kitchen waking me up from my nap yelling at the voices to stop it. I suggested that maybe it’s time to go to the hospital to see what they can do about it. She told me no, the voices stopped when I walked in the room. I think they stopped because I distracted her or something. I’m reviewing footage from the time I was napping (I managed to get about 3 hours so that I can stay up all night and sleep tomorrow during the day for work tomorrow night.) There is a lot to go through and if I see any that are out of the ordinary, I’ll post them below.

At the beginning of this clip, you see her messing with something on the left (viewer’s left). She was messing around with something in that area for a bit in another video. I point this out because later in this clip, she says that someone doesn’t want her here and that they broke the fan. I kept this clip because after that, she smiles and says “thank you.” Talking starts at about 3:15 when she asks someone if they are stuck or something. She’s looking over at some coffee mugs that she has pens and pencils in.
She’s getting a headache from the squealing in her head and the banging. She thought someone was dead. Quiet until 3:30 mentions me, then the bathroom and other random stuff.
I think we finally find out where the pink house is. She is apparently referring to the one at Big Lake that was next to Grandma & Grandpa Geiger’s house. For some reason, she thinks that was supposed to be her house. A bunch of random stuff and then I guess I’m trying to kill her and that’s obviously not a good thing.
She thinks there’s a police officer on stand-by right outside the house. The Echo is apparently being used as a back-up in case they have a problem with their squad cars. Someone’s trying to get her in a nursing home because they think she’s talking to herself (she’s not?)

She mentions something about handling a gun. Then says that she doesn’t see anything now, gets up and goes into her room and grabs a can of spray. It looks like hair spray (maybe Aquanet?) and sprays it at the bottom of the door. I’ll have to look and see what the can is tomorrow while she’s downstairs. That was just weird. At the end she gets up and walks funny to go downstairs.
Random stuff then she say that she and Warren had been married for 5 years. She started to say that someone killed him, then said that he had a heart attack. Later, she looks at the camera and says, “Don’t say that you don’t hear that.” I’m here to tell ya, you’re hearing the same thing that I am, just her voice.
Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. That’s a symptom of Alzheimer’s you know. (Huh, sounds familiar.)
Now what I am I supposed to be stealing now. Refers to my car (as always) as the Hot Red Camaro. Back to the pink house again. Get together and come up with something, she’s gonna stay out of it. (*shrugs* I don’t know either.) Silence until about 3:50 random stuff.
Random stuff until about 2:50. She says something about me and also mentions that I’m a police officer. Jerry Feester is now taking care of her (Veronica/Victoria I guess) and she’s even tried to nurse her, at her age. (Uhhhhhhhhhhh, yeeeeaaaah.)
The broken fan is revealed. It’s not actually broken. The top just got pulled off of the base. The switch in the back is missing though. At 2:20, she asked, “Jerry’s trying to put me in a nursing home?” This Jerry just does everything it seems. I don’t know who she’s talking to or even looking at, but she says, “You said you can fix this?” She carried it downstairs and laid it on a counter. I ended up throwing it out because the missing switch exposed the motor, potentially causing a shock or fire hazard.
Quiet until about 2:20: “That’s bullshit!” Something about her Echo and how Veronica was going to take it as her own. Still no clue who Veronica is, but is evidently a big time thief. She goes on to talk about a picture of Warren. At about 4:30, she puts her hands out and shortly afterwards asks, “Why does somebody keep calling me a bitch?” (It wasn’t me.. I was actually asleep on the couch at this time.)
Nod and a thumbs up. Something about Veronica. Little bit later, she’s not going to try to raise Victoria. “The first thing she tried to do was nurse me.” (Wait, wasn’t that Veronica just a few clips back?) Silence the rest of the clip and she goes downstairs.
At about 1:50: “That’s the second time.” Unknown for what. At 2:45: Veronica/Victoria grabbed a knife and it shows she can’t be trusted. At 3:40: “OK, she’s committed a murder. It’s time to take care of her right now. You’ve got all the proof you need.” (That Veronica/Victoria is one bad girl!)

That’s all I have for the upstairs camera. I haven’t even checked the kitchen yet, but I don’t think I’m going to mess with it since I’ve already uploaded a bunch today. By uploading all these videos, hopefully it will help the Doctor’s when it comes time to evaluate her. Is it excessive? Is it obsessive? Yeah, probably a little of both, but it may also be necessary.

February 24, 2020

1:35 AM – Mom came downstairs holding her hands on her ears and asked, “You don’t hear anything?” Nope, just the TV. I gave her 2 Tylenol assuming she has a headache and is hearing phantom banging.

She apparently seen something slithering here. After investigating for a bit, she slams the door to get my attention. She got my attention all right as you hear in the clip. The camera automatically started recording when she opened the door.

6:35 AM – She is really bad this morning. Seeing something slithering. She told me she’s hearing, “Saaaaaandy, Saaaaaaandy, Whhhy Wooon’t Yoouuu Answer Meeee Ooooonnn Yoooouuuuu Ceeeeellll Phoooonnnneeee.” She doesn’t have a cell phone. She was out in the kitchen and kept telling me that she was. I went out to see who she was talking to and she said, “you. there’s something crawling around out here.” I told her there was nothing out there and she starting saying, “I’m in the kitchen.” really loud again. By this time I’m getting fed up and yell out there that there’s nothing crawling around out there. She says, “You’re calling me a liar then.” I repeated that there’s nothing out there. This may be a very trying day.

“Shut your damn mouth.” I don’t know who she was talking to, but she’s pretty chatty this morning and the topics are all over the place. This is just a short clip that the camera captured automatically when she moved.
She gives someone the Shhh sign and a bit later says, “You’re going to get me in trouble.”
About half-way through this one, she tells someone to: “Be quiet. He’s right downstairs.”
She apparently thinks I’m SCREAMING at her to turn the TV down (she says that I’m the cause of it a little earlier that this. I posted this clip because she’s getting really loud about it at this point. She gets up and goes into her bedroom after this and I can still hear her yelling to shut up etc.

2:05 PM – She keeps showing me her coat and saying, “This is mine.” as if she thinks I’m trying to take it or something. Who know’s what’s going on in her head, but she’s been in the kitchen just non-stop chatting. Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten the camera yet (7 stops away as of this writing,) so I can’t record any of it, but it’s out there and almost constant.

2:34 PM – She put her coat on and was looking out the door. I asked her what she was doing and she said, “Jerry Feester is supposed to pick up Veronica (Victoria?).” *face palm* She’s so much fun to be around today. It’s a good thing I don’t have to work tonight. There’s no way I would have been able to get any sleep!

2:50 PM – Now apparently Veronica/Victoria stabbed Jerry because she didn’t want to go to Mercy Home for boys and girls. She said, “It’s crazy.” I couldn’t agree more.

5:15 PM – Mom has been sitting at the bottom of the stairs watching me. Well, she usually doesn’t talk to her invisible friends while I’m in the same room, but tonight she said, “This is my house. I bought it when the boys were little.” I think I’ve mentioned before that only Troy was still living with her when she bought it. Anyway, I looked at her (like she is out of her mind more than usual,) and she said, “Someone is telling me that I’m the next one being targeted to be killed.” Yeah, I did a face palm.

6:50 PM – Mom came down to use the bathroom and came back out a few seconds later to tell me that there was someone in the bathroom telling her to get out. Getting fed up with this crap today, I told her, “There is no one in the bathroom, now knock it off!” She tried repeating herself and I stopped her and told her to knock it off again. She went back in the bathroom and did her business. This day has sucked bad.

7:05 PM – Just finished yelling at her at the top of my lungs. I have had it! Being nice hasn’t worked, being calm hasn’t worked, ignoring her hasn’t worked. What the hell is left? Nursing home I guess. She starts in tomorrow and she might just find herself at the ER getting evaluated and then off to the nursing home. I am done.

7:55 PM – She has already forgotten about being yelled at, now she’s coming downstairs over and over again asking, “Where’s that coming from?” When asked what “that” is, she tells me it is “Shhhhaaaaannnon” in a constant loop. And here she comes again.. *eyeroll*

She’s looking all over for where “that” is coming from. She’s not convinced it’s coming from her own head.

February 23, 2020

5:45 AM – Mom came downstairs and stood at the bottom and said, “I’m Sandy Smith-Geiger-Murphy.” I told her that she can just go by Sandy Murphy and asked why she felt the need to tell me her name. She said, “Someone told me I needed to identify myself.” Ooookay.

9:15 AM – She’s in the kitchen talking about someone singing, he has a beautiful voice, but needs to be put in a sound proof room because he’s giving her a headache. I’m not recording any of it because at the moment, she’s getting a bowl of cereal ready and it’s making quiet a bit of noise.

Got some new cameras in today. This is a test of the kitchen cam. So far, these connect right away and also have pan and tilt. The cams are using a 5 Ghz channel, range isn’t as good, but there’s less interference so they don’t seem to be having any problems with dropping like the old ones did. I still need to run an Access Point upstairs because the 5 Ghz signal is weak up there so the audio/video is a little choppy. .

12:01 PM – She stomped on the floor again (5 stomps.) I wasn’t recording at the time, but checked the camera and she was sitting on her bed. A minute later and she got up and closed her bedroom door.

1:35 PM – Mom’s thing today seems to be constantly asking if I’m OK. I don’t know why she keeps asking me. Maybe one of her invisible friends told her there was something wrong with me. It’s getting kind of annoying.. lol

1:40 PM – And she stomped her feet in the bathroom (3 stomps.) She came out and went upstairs and once at the top of the stairs, I heard her say, “Shannon thinks this is his house.” May be related to the stomps. She also can’t seem to stay either upstairs or downstairs today. She’s also walking around pointing. I’m not sure what that’s all about.

9:45 PM – She’s been fairly quiet since the last update and just shut off lights and closed her bedroom door. Right before she did that, she stood at the door and was telling someone to shut up. Side Note: The mic on the upstairs camera isn’t as sensitive as the other cameras were. It’s harder to hear what she’s saying when she’s just talking quietly in her bedroom, but it is a cleaner audio. If the replacement camera coming tomorrow is more sensitive, I’ll put that one upstairs. So far I really like the new ones. Connect right away, no signal drops and they are powered, so no batteries to change and I can monitor continuously if needed.

February 22, 2020

8:45 AM – Mom came down this morning with a look on her face like she is going to have an attitude problem today. I hope that’s not the case as my own fuse is getting shorter and shorter as time goes on. We shall see I guess.

2:5o PM – Got woken up to stomping again. This time it was much harder than usual. So, I went up and yelled at her. I let her know that the stomping was unacceptable and I’m tired of being woken up to it. She claimed that she was just sitting there all innocent like even though it had only been 2 minutes prior. She put her headphones back on, so I yelled even louder that if it continued, she WILL find herself in a nursing home.

She has discovered that she’s no longer watching the Travel Channel. She keeps claiming that I told her it that it didn’t cost any extra, although I’ve made no claims. She keeps trying to turn the channel and ends up changing the TV input and gets nothing. I’ve fixed it 2 times now and have told her she’s not watching Travel Channel because the ghost hunter type shows are causing problems. She’s getting loud enough that I hear her downstairs. The camera connection has been lousy lately, so not in this video is her claiming that Victoria is causing it.

February 21, 2020

8:45 AM – She’s already started today. She’s upstairs going on about being accused of being a liar and a thief, “Why is he not being picked up for being a liar and a thief?” and how she had 4 boys. There is a new one, though. “Shannon’s gonna be haunted for the rest of his life for what he’s doing.” What am I doing? I have no idea. So basically, babbling on about a bunch of random nonsense as usual. I’m gonna eat my supper and try to get some sleep if she will let me. And she stomped on the floor. We may end up having some words.

2:00 PM – Got woken up by more stomping. This is bullshit. She has her bedroom door shut and I don’t hear any yelling, so I don’t know what’s going on. I got a new key fob in today, so went ahead and got up to go out and program it, my jackets were gone. Turns out, Mom had decided to wash them today. I’ve been washing my own stuff for years, now suddenly she needs to wash them? No signs of using soap or fabric softener either.

3:15 PM – She’s apparently being accused of stealing the lamp that sits beside her upstairs. I guess she needed something else since the piano stool wasn’t there anymore. Will upload video if any stomping or anything else drastic happen.

February 20, 2020

4:00 PM – I woke up to what may or may not have been 3 bangs. I say may or may not have because I don’t know if she was banging, it was coming from outside or if I was dreaming it. I checked the cam and she was going on about not stealing, the piano stool was already here and the house is too old to have a piano in it again. For the most part, I slept pretty well today, waking up a couple of times when Mom was going up and down the stairs and once when a guy came and knocked on the door to let me know he was taking pictures of the house for the insurance company (I was notified ahead of time when I got the homeowner’s insurance that this would happen.) Pretty much no change from yesterday then it seems.

4:15 PM – OK, this was different. She picked up her piano stool, stood at the upstairs door for a moment, walked out of the room with it, then walked back in and put it back where it was. Odd.

Evidently, while moving her piano stool around, she ended up breaking the seat of it. I heard a bunch of yelling upstairs so recorded a little bit of it. So yeah, she’s all pissed off now. I picked up the stool and hid it in the basement, so hopefully it not being in view will calm her down. I do have a 21 second clip where she is moving the stool. I’ll upload that when I get home in the morning.
I think I can upload this directly from my phone. Just a quick clip where Mom is moving the piano stool. The seat is not broken here and right after this ended, she went back in the room and put it back where it was.

February 19, 2020

3:15 AM – I had an idea about Mom’s TV watching and decided to look up recommended TV channels that might be suitable for Alzheimer’s patients. There were 2 of them that I found: TV Land and Turner Classic Movies. I settled on TV Land to give that a try since they are shorter programs and they have several older shows that she might enjoy. I’m wondering if the Travel Channel programming might have been causing problems with the Ghost Hunter style shows that they have on there sometimes. Hopefully she doesn’t give me any problems with the change and the shows help with her mood!

10:55 AM – It’s probably too soon to know for sure if the TV idea is working, but she’s been wearing the headphones around the house, hasn’t said anything about it being on a different channel and most notably, hasn’t been talking to her invisible people (to my knowledge.) She has been up and down the stairs several times, which is why I’m awake right now, but is currently upstairs doing a find the word puzzle, silently. The channel guide shows that Bonanza is on right now, but it was The Andy Griffith Show earlier. I’m going to try to go back to sleep now. Hopefully things continue to stay quiet.

3:15 PM – It’s really annoying when she moves something, then claims she didn’t do it. I have a coffee bean can that has a vacuum plug and sealed cap on it I keep in a lower cabinet. I found it in the refrigerator with the plug removed. Mom happened to be standing there and I casually commented that this can stays in the cabinet. She immediately got bent out of shape and claimed that she didn’t do it. I replied, “I’m just saying, this goes in a cabinet, not in the fridge.” I have to say, at least she left me alone for the most part today. No stomping, no loud talking. She did wake me up a few times going up and down the stairs. I’ve gotten to be such a light sleeper that just the creaking of the stairs will wake me. In a way, that’s probably a good thing. She’s in the kitchen, rocking in her chair and drinking a cup of coffee quietly.

4:00 PM – Mom used to like watching M*A*S*H, but was sitting in the kitchen. I let her know that it was coming on and she hurried upstairs to watch it. She’s up there quietly watching it now. Out of the blue, she said, “If you think I’ve stolen something like that, then you need to get out of here. This old house wouldn’t handle a piano.”

She took off her headphones and asked who was here, so I started recording. She mentions that she has a piano stool, but a piano would be too heavy for this place. Then she says that she chews with her mouth closed… what is your problem? We then go on to a conversation with someone about being accused of stealing a piano. I don’t know… maybe the voices in the headphones prompted her to have a conversation? Headphones go back on and she’s quiet until she get’s up to come downstairs.
What is your problem? A piano in this house would be too heavy (it actually wouldn’t be.) She’s being accused of stealing either a piano or a piano stool. She’s talking to someone on her left.. weird. She claims the stool was here when she bought this place. It’s actually one that she had when she was still married to Dad. Connection drops. Connection issues are really bad today for some reason.
That’s bullshit. Veronica has… that’s stupid. She’s getting mad. “If you’re stupid enough to call me a thief, then you don’t need to be here.” (I guess at least no one is getting shot today.) She came downstairs and was still talking about the piano. I went ahead and gave her her pill since she ate some apples. She went back upstairs to go on about the piano. I’ll post more if there’s changes.

5:35 PM – The conversation has shifted to reminding someone that they’ve been dead for a while now and that I have a hot red Camaro and she has an Echo. She also thinks that I’ve already left for work (oddly enough, she came downstairs right after talking about me leaving for work and didn’t say a word to me or act like she was surprised I was still here.) I haven’t yet, but it’s almost time for me to get ready, so this is probably going to be the last update for the night unless I see something while I’m at work worth posting about. So, good night!