So there we were this afternoon in the Special Care Unit (ie Dementia) at the Nursing Home celebrating the June birthdays; my mother one of the birthday 'girls'.
An entertainer has been wheeled in to serenade us. She is of the style of Jeanette McDonald and almost as old had McDonald still been alive. Sitting at the piano, our McDonald reincarnated is playing and singing rip-roaring songs to the assembled dementia sufferers and a smattering of relatives such as It's A Long Way To Tipperary and When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.
During a break in her entertainment La McDonald turns to us and thanks us for our participation and our 'clear enjoyment' of the afternoon to which my mother in a moment of complete silence and rare lucidity shouts out in response 'Like Hell'.
My mother's few sensible moments come at the most inconvenient times now but we all had a good laugh.
I do love those moments in the Aged Care Facility I work in.
ReplyDeleteYour mum sounds like a real gem! Good on her
ReplyDeleteShe still has her sense of humour I see!
ReplyDeletehehehe.
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