Surviving the Inlaws
Posted by WhiteCoat on September 20, 2007
The inlaws left today. Enjoyed their stay. Actually don’t get to see enough of them. My poor father in law is apparently starting to lose it, though.
He was trying to tune into his favorite TV show and kept clicking on the remote, but the TV wouldn’t change channels. He started getting frustrated and asked whether the remote needed new batteries. No, but it would help if you weren’t trying to change the TV channel with the telephone.
Then everyone went out to a Chinese restaurant for dinner. He couldn’t read the menu and thought we were pulling a joke on him by giving him a menu written in “Chinese.” He was able to read it a lot better once we turned the menu upright. I couldn’t tell whether he was kidding with this one, but am giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Aricept isn’t too far away, I have a feeling.
September 20, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Awww…that is a frightening prospect…for everyone.
My girlfriend’s father got on his lawnmower once and he tried to start it by bouncing up and down on the seat as if riding a horse. Prior to that he would get lost traveling from his daughter’s house up here while en route back down to his house - a route he had driven for years. While it wasn’t Alzheimers he did have a senile dementia -which ran in the family- all siblings had it, as did his mother.
I did something so illogical last month, that if I had stopped to think anywhere along the way -I would have instantly realized the appropriate thing to do - for all kinds of reasons. (I blogged about it-I Did a Ditzy Thing at the Urologists Office Today) At first it hit me as ditzy and really funny and so I blogged about it (embellished a tad)and even mentioned it to the nurse and doc while laughing about it.
But then 2 days later I was horrified because I realized all the processes that I ignored in doing what I did. I did/do know better!
However, the facts are, that I had ended up in the ED with an acute pancreatitis the previous week (s/p a urological procedure), was both confused and STRESSED at the possibility of the surgery and procedure the ED doc thought I should be admitted for, conflicting dx’s, not fully understanding what one doc meant or what direction I should take if indeed surgery were indicated and both docs who are familiar with me were going to be away (one already was)and I had just seen this doc 2 days prior to discuss this. Also, I had just come through 19 months of needing significant urological care (better now) and I just couldn’t wrap my mind around having to have surgery for GB or something else. So, now I was traveling down to his satellite office and was concerned about getting lost because I had already done that twice before (I didn’t this time tho)and I was concerned that I was taking him away from a pt that needed him more. And not at all used to the layout of that office although last year it wasn’t an issue. So, I was PREOCCUPIED for sure thinking about what I wanted to discuss.
I am happy to say that he and the other doc were right and they attributed it to the procedure I had earlier that day along with some other stuff and I am perfectly well now.
And that doc is always good with me and he clarified everything for me which helped immensely.
So, I think it was the high anxiety I was feeling in conjunction with not being familiar with the layout. Still, the fact that I typed this-it bugs me that I did it.
I do hope your f-i-l will be alright.