Deflection

We are definitely in the middle of summer, with the high at 87 degrees. Since I am in a bedroom on the east side of the house, I am up way too early. This morning I want for my walk at 6:30 and was showered before 8:00 when mom’s caregiver come in.

I started working on my summer trip, as I was wanting to work last summer. I figure that I would have to drive through the hot plaines to get the the cold comfort of the Rock Mountains, and that does not seem like any fun at all. So, the closest cool place is Lake Superior. Therefore, I started laying out me trip. When I bought my trailer, I figured that I could just drive until I decided to look for a camp ground, but I am finding that I have to go on line and rent campground space. This is going to be challenging, since I have waited a little late to state renting spaces. Tomorrow, I will rent all of my spaces.

I made a signifiant discovery with mom’s dementia last evening. After supper, I had her on the front porch, and she became bored to death. Then the sundowners set in. She wanted to go home. Would I take here home (her fictional home). To state that we are staying there only made her depressed. With mom in good physical and cognitive, as a person can be in her stage of dementia, condition, her mind just goes without any boundaries. She plays round robin on here questions. Since ever third question is the same question again, this type of activity just takes both or us down, since I get tired of it in a big hurry. But, if the caregiver comes in at this time, then mom turns this activity into the fact that the caregiver has come into the house to as an evil person. If his active is not stopped, then it get really bad with the caregiver being there in the evening. Last night, before the caregiver got there, and she was playing round robin with me, I toke her in the house and showed her an episode of Rick Steves. Since she got into the Rick’s episode, she got out of her sundowners episode. But, as I stated above, it become clear that when she is bored, and there is nothing to occupy her thoughts, her mind goes wild. As for the caregiver, it be comes a problem on what it takes to occupy her brain during these episodes.

They state that it will rain tomorrow and be cooler on Wednesday, so I cannot wait.

Roger