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I wonder if the missing light bulbs are connected with the unplugging? Hubby used to turn off power strips, so when the lights did not go on he would take out the bulbs because he assumed that they had burned out. Maybe your mom is doing the same thing (the lamp does not go on because it is unplugged so mom takes out the bulb but forgets before she finds and puts in a new bulb).
Possibly.
She unplugs EVERYTHING though. It's sort of bizarre. It's not like anything in her house has every spontaneously combusted or anything. But she is convinced that leaving things plugged in will cause a fire.
She is also convinced that talking on phones gives people brain cancer so she puts her phone on a plate and holds it about 6 inches from her head.
<>my dad called me in a panic because he couldn't find his dentures. I drove over there and hunted for hours until I finally found them in the refrigerator.<>
On a boat ride my dad thought he had lost his hearing aids. We searched for an hour before someone thought to look (wait for it) . . . in his ear! The battery had died.
On a boat ride my dad thought he had lost his hearing aids. We searched for an hour before someone thought to look (wait for it) . . . in his ear! The battery had died.
Oh my gosh. Seems we all have stories like that, Crashj. I'm certain that someday people will be telling stories of the funny things we did when we reach that point.
Yes! Well, yesterday in the lobby of Mom's apartment complex, a woman stopped her and said, "Oh my, honey, I hope you found your teeth." I said, "What?" Mom meanwhile smiled and nodded and said, "I did and I'm sure glad I did because it would be very expensive if I couldn't find them." I said, "Wait - what?" The other woman said, "I knew they had to be in your apartment all along!" Mom said, "They were - I found them under the bed!"
I said, "Stop! Mom, you don't have false teeth." She just stood there and smiled at the woman, who was looking at her, then me, then her again. The other woman said, "But I thought you lost them." "I did," Mom said.
I said "YOU DON'T HAVE FALSE TEETH." Mom said, "No, I certainly do not." I said, "Then you couldn't lose them." She said, "I didn't lose any teeth. I don't know what you're going on about. I lost my keys."
I said "YOU DON'T HAVE FALSE TEETH." Mom said, "No, I certainly do not." I said, "Then you couldn't lose them." She said, "I didn't lose any teeth. I don't know what you're going on about. I lost my keys."
So now you can add "get Mom a hearing aid" to your list of things to do. lol
I know, I know, she would just lose it. Or she would be convinced it was just a government mind-control device or something like that and refuse to wear it.
So now you can add "get Mom a hearing aid" to your list of things to do. lol
I know, I know, she would just lose it. Or she would be convinced it was just a government mind-control device or something like that and refuse to wear it.
Unfortunately, that's probably so true. My Mom used to adjust her hearing aids constantly (always turning the volume up), and I swear she had me change the batteries out every time I visited her. She had quite a stock of the little batteries in her dresser when she died.
I think that is sad. She was burning up. That seems like the dementia part.
I'm thinking maybe the stealing might be from dementia too. That can be a symptom of the type of dementia my mom has - Frontotemporal, but I don't know if it is of vascular as well. My guess would be that if she would not have thought of stealing anything earlier in life, then that probably is, sadly, dementia at work now.
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My Mom used to adjust her hearing aids constantly (always turning the volume up), and I swear she had me change the batteries out every time I visited her. She had quite a stock of the little batteries in her dresser when she died.