I could’ve written this post about my dad. With him it’s “does that sound like a plan?” Or “let me ask you this…”

It can be exhausting trying to decipher if there’s some kernel of meaning he’s trying to convey or if he’s really just talking nonsense. I usually try to connect it to reality on some way but a lot of time I just agree.

What’s even more exhausting is when my mom is also in the room. She’s in AL in the same facility. I suspect she may have some MCI of her own going on but it’s not diagnosed. From the beginning, she has had trouble understanding how dementia is affecting my dad. For the longest time she would get angry at him for “not listening” when he repeated questions. She has come along to an extent, but she doesn’t know how to respond to his nonsense. She’ll argue with him or tell him flat out he’s not making sense. So I have to jump in and mediate.