Don't know if to laugh or cry!!

[Sunny67]

After a week of trying to sort out dad and DSM Ithis morning I ohoned to remind them to take tablets. DSM has lost a fan heater, it's been missing since Wednesday, I know it was there before as I'd seen it. Today she was convinced that the British Gas engineer from yesterday had taken it! No because you told me it had gone the day before, oh did I? She said
Anyway my DSB was going this afternoon so I thoght I'd be in for an easier day, nope! Apparently DSM had gone to buy a new one before he got there. She plugged it in and it fused half the house. It's an old fuse board so he went to a neighbour for fuse wire. They'd akso lost the remote for the TV so that's on and on loud and dad has amounted that when DSM was out a man came in the house so dad punched him and this man went??!! I've no idea if anyone has been in but I'm forever telling them to lock the door!'n

It made me laugh....

I'm laughing now. DSB said it's like having a bloody ghost in the house with all the stuff that disappears

Oh TV remote has turned up in the cutlery draw. First place to look obviously

We should write a book. My elderly neighbour was given a T.V by the Salvation Army. After about 6 months the tv licence people came. He kept telling them it wasn't his tv it belonged to Sally.

I went into his house because I could hear him shouting, and they were nearly climbing the walls trying to understand him. In the end he said take the f ing tv to the Sally, tell them to get the licence and bring it back to me. It was only the fact that he was 98 that stopped him picking the set up and throwing out on the door.

They left and I don't think he ever paid the fee.

florentina your post made me giggle! Bless your neighbour. I hope he's got a tv and tv license now .

When my mum had to go,for a memory test, in 2010 they asked her if she could name the Prime Minister.

Yes, she said, of course I can. Winston Churchill, f ing war monger.

Before she had Alzheimer's she never swore.

After the lost TV remote being found in the cutlery draw two hours after it was reported missing and the fussing of half the house from a rogue fan heater, tv socket not included. And DSM trip to the chemist yesterday with some British Gas paperwork, (they'd been to fix the boiler,) to ask what these papers were doing with her tablets???!!!
I think a thread of the quirky elderly parents comments is bound to be a funny/sad/touching one.

Oh bless them! My mum likes to put things away safely. Of course, this can mean carefully stashing things in the airing cupboard, under the bed, or in the wardrobe, which is not always where you think to look for the photos/ mobile phone/ glasses.

She also has very significant language issues, so even when she has the urge to talk to you, its more a case of ' the.... urmmmm..... thing...... is..........' leaving you desperately trying to fill in the blanks.

Very, very elderly relative is always having her hearing aid or shoe polish stolen by "the burglars". When we find them & show her she is insistent that the burglars have broken in to bring them back.

It's so sad when loved ones minds start to go but you have to laugh at some of the things or you'd weep all the time.

My DM (long gone) had Alzheimers & one day she told me she wanted to tell me a secret:

"You know that man I was married to?" she asked me.

I said that I did. (My father had been dead for about 8 years at tha ttime)

"Well," she said, "don't tell anyone but I am almost certain he was your father"!