Coping With Dementia Gifts

'Forgetfulness is a problem for all of us and forgetting can be downright embarrassing. . . right, Melvin?'

". . . and now it's his memory. Three times on Saturday he asked me what day it was. Or did I already tell you that earlier?"

'Somewhere along the way, I went from lambada to lumbago.'

'I know I don't look like a matinee idol of yesteryear anymore, but neither do they!'

Sculptor making a statue to hug.

'Luckily he has dementia so he's go some imaginary friends coming in to look after him.'

"I knew Mary would dump me when my fleece got a little gray."

"Meanwhile, in the Memory Care Unit... I said, your secret’s safe with me."

Mel puts on his best friend's thunder vest, crawls into a bathtub and tries to keep it together while democracy explodes all around him.

"It's nice, but how do you adjust the sleep number?''

"Could be worse..." "Could be worse..." "Could be worse..." "Could be... oh, never mind."

"It's the perfect cure for the corona virus blues."

"No, your body is actually alive and well back on earth - your mind has just arrived at the gates of blissful dementia."

'You're getting too old for this game, Scott. ... They say the legs are the first to go.'

Alzheimer's Disease

"I have a recurring nightmare where the paradigm keeps shifting without me."

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"My grandfather dies from asbestos poisoning - it took 'em 3 weeks to cremate him...."

"I've got three pre-schoolers at home so I had to memorize the Serenity Prayer."

"I assure you that you don't have Alzheimer's because you paid my fee last week."

'Grace under pressure is a beautiful thing. Grace after the pressure is off...not so nice.'

'I try not to push him. After all, his job, his division, his company and his hometown were eliminated.'

Clockdown

Sorry the dementia statistics are not ready, they keep losing count.'

Darling, I wish you'd stop the self defense classes, now you've got Alzheimer's.

'I've been having one long, continuous bad hair day for the past 25 years.'

'It's worse than we first thought. She even stopped lying about her age.'

"Don't worry if you can't remember where the drum is, grandad. I think your internal memory is full."

"Whenever they low, I get high."

"I'm having a really hard time adjusting to a completely unprecedented set of things to complain about,"