Early in the day, I had stopped by Atria to deliver a
gorgeous basket of red carnations I had found at Michael's for my mother.
They look so real and they won't die on her, which is always a plus.
She was unintentionally funny today and though on the one hand it was sad,
on the other hand, I couldn't help but laugh at what happened.
I found her sitting in the hall outside the dining room,
where the men--fathers and their grown up sons--were stopping by a big bin
of bow ties, gift for all the fathers going to lunch. "I'm getting too
old and I don't know what's going on any more," she said, as I explained to
her more than once that it was Father's Day and the ties were for all the
Dads.
After awhile we went to her apartment. I had her pills
for next week to leave for her and I was fairly certain that if I left her
sitting in the hall, she would not remember to take the flowers with her
when she went back to her apartment. And I was right, because even
when I reminded her to take them, her reaction was "Oh? Are those for
me?"
We got to the apartment and I went to put her pills in the
bathroom, where I always leave them. I saw that the previous week's
pill box still had two days' worth of pills in it. It had been 3 days
since I was last there and when I was there, there were two days' worth of
pills not yet taken, so she hasn't been taking her pills.
I confronted her with it (which is always pointless, but
somehow I need to do it). "There are two days worth of pills in there
so I know you haven't been taking your pills," I said.
She got defensive and then said "OK...I'll take one NOW."
She got herself a glass of water, and two cookies and
went to sit down and dutifully eat her cookies. I got her pills and
handed them to her. "What are those?" she asked, and then said
"Oh...do I take pills?"
I'm going to have to monitor her more closely to make sure
she is taking the pills, which means going to Atria more often. But I
had to admit that I got a good chuckle out of her thinking that she was
doing what she was supposed to do by eating two cookies with her glass of
water.
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