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When we placed my father-in-law in a memory care facility, he thought he was on a cruise ship and wanted to know where our room was and who the activity director was.
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I’ll try a funny double dose 24/7of a
Phone is like a gun and don’t know what 95 old dad by call (911) . He pushed their limits. After 16 police officers at house in 2 years . It came where they called Social Services. A Male and nice looking female came to house. I’ve never been married and no kids . Told Made phone call to male that got RN coming to house to do appointment application for in house help. The MSA certification dude never heard voice message. Only reason he called is because hot female “LOST” her “BADGE”. Thinking Maybe asking that she can stay for a sleep over; My dad probably scare her off like police too. Police said previously; to put him in assisted living and let them take care of him. My quote is You never know who you may marry.. Maybe she’ll kick him outta the house. I only met her today. They’re coming back. Don’t ask what my intensions are. Date maybe. Don’t know?
Hope that be funny enough. A friend said to me, at least your making good friends with the local police 👮 👮‍♀️🚔 officers and not running 🏃.
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Lol. Prefixes are funny and interpretation can be interpreted in different ways. Text “by presenter “Lol” on text and the recipient” It could be “ laugh out loud”. “Lots of laughter or laughs.” I thought when females contacted me by text it meant “lots of love ❤️”. Try to make others laugh through own issues and problems you go through as of a 24/7
CG. End of day you laugh at the day with a smile 😃.
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Several months ago, when my husband was still capable of showering himself following my instructions, I called out the body parts for him to soap up. "Wash your left arm." He did. "Wash your right arm." He did. "Wash your chest." He did. "Wash your legs." He did. "Wash your penis." (As a doctor's family, we always used the correct anatomical names for body parts.) He did. "Now wash your rectum." He stared blankly into space. I repeated this instruction several times, but no response. Finally, out of exasperation because I was in a hurry to get to an appointment, I raised my voice, called him by his full name, and said, "Do you know where your rectum is??" He very calmly replied, "I haven't been able to find it in here."

I haven't stopped laughing since. He can't shower himself anymore, but every time I tell this story to someone in front of him, he laughs out loud. When I told my daughter about it, he looked at her, grinned, and said, "Don't you believe it."

Humor is so important. I cherish all the funny moments, especially those that make him flash that wonderful grin. I'm writing all of them in a book that I will share one of these days.
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Sometimes I myself have moments of confusion or forgetfulness, especially if I am very tired.  One day I returned to the local store  two more times for things I'd forgotten (like money, the first time).  I told them that dementia can be contagious.  Yesterday after grocery shopping I forgot how to do the credit-card machine, dropped stuff from my purse, and accepted help from cashier.  She laughed when I told her, "this is why they have us retire and won't let us work anymore."
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I don’t know if anyone has ever seen One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Every time I visit the Health & Rehabilitation Center my dad is at. I feel like I’m Jack Nicholson playing the role of Randle McMurphy. It’s basically a nuthouse and nobody is rehabilitated there; but just gets worse. I plan on bringing in a deck of cards and poker chips to play with the people in wheel chairs at the table. And no I don’t plan on bringing in playing cards like Randle McMurphy in the movie; however , it did cross my mind and could catch attention of others at the table.
At least I’d spending time wisely with out those cards and I’ll make sure they’re having a good time I also don’t want to make that good of a impression because I’ll be getting phone calls from other patients asking where they hell is your son because he needs to come here when we’re eating and play cards
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We live in a condo and the upstairs neighbors are quite loud. Last Saturday mom was with it enough to comment: “Those neighbors upstairs sure need to lay off the butter!”. I laughed so hard I could hardly breathe. Then miracle of miracles. The next morning I was washing mom’s hair and the boom, boom, boom of someone walking around started again and mom deadpanned “there they go running for that butter truck!” Normally she has trouble stringing days and conversations together so this was quite a funny treat.
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The other day I told my husband (89yr ALZ) I was going to ride my motorcycle to FL to visit Billy (our son). He asked if he could come. I told him he could not ride on the motorcycle and he asked if I could teach him to be my passenger. I said okay, let’s go. When we got halfway to the garage he asked where we were going. I told him I was going to take him on the motorcycle. He stopped dead in his tracks and said “are you trying to kill me or something!” I told him he asked me to teach him to ride and he laughed so hard it was funny. I had to calm him down so he could walk back to his chair. Picture funny: 88 pound me on a 250 ninja with 200 pound him on the back. Of course I would never actually let him try to get on it, but it was funny.
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My mom is a HUGE flirt. And always trying to fix up my 31 YO daughter. Every Dr and todays PT guy are possiblilties.. Today after her first PT visit I already know the young man is married, has a baby, where he lives.. You name it. Same with her cute cardiologist and dermatologists.. And my Aunt is just a bad,, she and mom joke about "checking out mens packages" if you get my drift,, and I know you do! They are 85 and 88 and all my cousins and I get a kick out of it!
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LOL now that you mention it! One day my mother put her blouse out on the bed that she was supposed to wear to a bridal shower, and because she always put my father's clothes on the bed for him to wear, he thought that blouse was for him..so he put it on! And then he walks into the kitchen and says "is this what you want me to wear?!" he said it so innocently like it was something he was supposed to wear. I nearly spit out my pancakes!
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When my father was 96 years old he needed to go to a rehab facility. The rehab was at the Jewish Home for the Aging. He wasn't very happy about going there. He told me he didn't think he was going to like being Jewish. He was Catholic.
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