The Lemon Bar Queen by Jodi Melsness

Author:Jodi Melsness
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cold Lake Publishing
Published: 2019-09-06T23:18:24+00:00

The Boring Topic, February 2014

Today I am writing with Mom. Just so we are clear, she knows that I write about her. She feels that she is a terrible topic and she wonders why anyone would find her interesting. I reminded her also that I write about her because it was a suggestion of the Alzheimer’s Association and that some of the issues we run into may help other people. She continues to think that she is a boring topic.

We have just finished lunch, and Bingo will start soon. We are reviewing our week. It goes something like this:

We have lost her remote . . . we have found her remote. We have lost her remote . . . we have found her remote. Repeat times ten.

She has found a new friend, a soft blue stuffed dog. She has not named it yet and I can tell that she has forgotten about Matilda for now. Matilda is sitting on top of her bed, watching the new dog taking her place. I hope we don’t have to bring both of them on our travels. I hope future visitors bring food, not more stuffed animals. We decided to call her new dog Blue Dog. I know, creative.

She has wanted to go home for the last month, and today is no different. I don’t know where she thinks “home” is. She normally will tell me she wants to go home on the phone. Home could be one of a few places. It could be the farm we lived on for seventeen years with her lovely garden. It could be two blocks from my own house, where they lived when they adopted both Ross and me. It could be off of Chicago or Penn, where they lived in the forties and fifties. Home could be Howard Lake, where she graduated from and where she has so many memories. She also talks a lot about the red house, located in Crystal, where they lived for a short time. Home is important to people, and when illness occurs I hear that so much. “I want to go home!” When I have a client who says that, I wish I could help them find their home. Home could also imply being with a much-missed loved one. I wish I knew which “home” Mom was referring to.

We have found six of her missing pants. As it is in a memory care unit, things disappear. I had bought a few pairs of pants for her at Lands’ End and was upset that so many of them were missing. The staff found them in four different rooms, and all is right with the world again.

She received some cards for Valentine’s Day from two longtime friends, Marilyn and Ardis. Something so simple means so much. We have hung them up in her room so that every day she will remind me she got some cards. Every day continues to be new.

As a special surprise, I bought her some Girl Scouts cookies from my friend Leslie.

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