If We Make it Thru DecemberOK, I've been upstate 4 days now and mama, I'm comin' home. My mother might be deteriorating mentally, in ways that would be funny if they weren't so profoundly depressing. (Or is it that they'd be profoundly depressing if they weren't so funny?) She's begun saving used sandwich bags and used--"but still perfectly good!"--paper towels. Also, she's begun dumping the empty catfood cans into the sink to moulder. I wait until she's fixated on something elsewhere (for example, organizing her 25 years' worth of cooking magazines) and I throw away every last used paper towel and sandwich bag and then I scrub out all the catfood cans and put them in the recycling and then I empty the fetid dish drain stopper thingy into the garbage. Then I pour bleach down the drain and then I set the entire kitchen on fire. Also, can someone with a copy of the DSM II look up whether shitting with the bathroom door open and tapping your cigarette ashes onto your dinner plate are a sign of dementia or just not giving a fuck? Posted by Dana at 10:00 AM
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Smoking cigarettes is a sign of dementia.
Shitting with the door open is a sign of "not giving a fuck" if other people are around.
Stay calm, help is on its way.
December is the cruelest month, at least when it comes to relatives.
Big hugs for you, kiddo.
I wish I couldn't relate, but there it is. All I can say is, it could be worse: at least it hasn't gotten to the point where your neighbors have her arrested for indecent exposure. (You get your gold-level membership card after you post bail though...)
Posted by: krimur at December 29, 2004 11:19 AM