Spies

One thread in our dementia drama is that mom thinks that we are trying to take control of their lives. As a result, we know that she hides things from us.


Fortunately, our niece Stacy and her friend Stephanie, are very close to mom and dad and they visit regularly.


And, mom tells them things she withholds from the rest of us. So, Stacy and Stephanie serve as our spies. The girls visited on Saturday.


Here are some things they learned:


Dad often calls me Robert, the name of my dad's next youngest brother. More disturbingly, mom says that dad sometimes calls her by another name. We don't know what that name is.


Yesterday, he, apparently didn't know who Evie and I were, though he was very happy that those people stopped by to visit and he had a good time.