[January]

Mom is staying with me for a few days. I'm so nervous I don't know what to do with myself and Mom is the same way. Her furnace went down and she can't stay there. She gets very nervous when she's not in her own home and can stay on her own routine. She's also terrified we won't let her go home. I feel so sorry for her about that...

Anyway, Mom is very hard of hearing. I was using the phone in another room and said, "Cher is going to come over to listen for the phone while I'm gone." Mom screamed, "I am not senile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Well, instead of seeing the humor of it all, I had to go into a long winded speech about I have hearing loss too, and that I understand how easy it is to misunderstand what people are saying, etc.

Tonight I told Mom, "I have a fever." She immediately screamed, "You're having a seizure??????????????" I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair. When I was finally able to talk, I said, "I think you would have noticed if I was having a seizure." She started giggling and said, "Well, I thought so, too."

Oh, that was so funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

January, when I moved back in with my mom to care for her we had a funny incident one day. Mom had had five strokes and couldn't talk. She would try but it was just gibberish......

I have an evil sister who spends her time thinking of ways to hurt my feelings and make me cry. One day she came up and while we were in the kitchen together, bad mistake, she made me cry. Satisfied with herself, she left and went home.

I walked into the livingroom, crying, and said to my mother, "sometimes I'd like to slap the **** out of Connie" and my mother perked up in her recliner and said, "I think you should slap the **** out of Connie".........we both laughed so hard that our noses were running and we were crying. We must have laughed 30 minutes. I still giggle when I remember those words bursting out of her and the satisfaction it gave her!!!!

[January]

Oh awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so glad you had that good laugh with your Mom. That was just the best!!!!!

I hope you don't invite Connie to your house!

Hugs,

Jan

[sabby]

Humor...it is just the best tension releaser isn't it??? LOLOL

When I was caring for my mom, she had been going through radiation treatments for brain cancer. The doc had told us that mornings would be difficult for her and she would be "out of it" at times.

My first child was 4 at the time and had the game called "Ants in the Pants". I don't know if you remember it or not, but it's plastic pants with suspenders and you flick the plastic ants at it to try and get into the pants as many ants as you can.

Well, the game in it's box was sitting ontop of mom's dresser at the foot of mom's bed. She woke one morning and I went in to bring her some brekkie and she's looking up at the ceiling with this perplexed look on her face. I said "Mom, what's the matter?"

Are you ready for this???? LOLOL

She says, "Jean, is there any way the ants could have gotten out of the box and gone onto the ceiling? I see them crawling around up there!"

OMG....I nearly wet my pants laughing so hard...and she's looking at me with this questioning look in her eyes. I finally was able to spit out...."No mom, those are plastic ants in the game, they aren't alive and can't get out of the box." She then cracks a big wide grin and says...."Of course they can't! How silly of me to think that!"

I will never forget that time with mom, as it was the last time that her and I had a laugh together before she passed. She had a great sense of humor....and when I need to laugh, I think of that time together and it always brings a smile to my face and my heart

Hugsssssss
J

[January]

((((((((( Sabau ))))))))))

What a wonderful laugh!!!! I'm so glad you had that with your Mom. Gifts like that are priceless.

Hugs,

Jan

[darkeyes]

That is so funny, and cute.
My hearing gets off sometimes, my son can ask me something from the other room, or I can hear the TV, and what I hear sometimes isn't what was said, but close. LOL!!!
So we started writing on an index card putting what was said on one column and then what I heard in the other, it was so funny and when we go back and read them we laugh so much.
Once, a man from the oxygen company was talking loud to her, he must of thought she was hard of hearing, she told me, "just because I'm old, doesn't mean I'm deaf!!" LOL!!
Oh well, keep them coming here, any new ones or ones you can remember, it can bring laughter to many of us, okay?

(((((((((( January ))))))))))))

[DocClyde]

I had a friend who stayed with an older, blind, hard of hearing man to help him with his daily activities. One day, I was there, in my friends room, playing video games, and the old man said something, and my friend replied to him in a very nice way, "I will get to it very soon, but I have to think about it."

All of a sudden, the old man came around the corner, as fast as he could and screamed--"Don't call me a crazy nut!"

He was always doing stuff like that, he had a hair trigger...you could be really nice to him, and he would misunderstand you, and go off, and it would take forever to get him calmed down...

...now that I am getting to be an old man, I understand a bit

all of this makes me smile a lot.

i remembered one other thing that mom said. she had a cat named "Moe" and the cat was sitting in her lap one day. mom kept messing with her and Moe started whipping her tail around. i warned her and so did the caregiver that was there......we were laughing and telling her, "she's gonna get you in a minute" and suddenly Moe bit her. Mom pulled her arm back and said in great shock, "well, she's never bitten me before"...........we all just died laughing. so, i know of two sentences that she said before she died.

one day i asked her if she wanted to die and she nodded her head yes. i said "well, who will you see when you get to heaven?" and she said "your dad".......and then we played a game back and forth, naming who she would see. it made her really happy that day.

[Juliana]

LOL! That's hilarious. It sounds like you and your mum have a good relationship.

My mum cracks me up too. She infuriates me sometimes, but she's funny (without even trying).

About a month ago, she had my admin assistant track me down at the office for an urgent call. She and I have had the conversation (many times) about the fact that I'm very busy at work and she should only call if it's an emergency. (She called the office one day to ask me if she should use almonds or pecans in her baking and that's when I put my foot down.)

Anyway, I ran to the phone, thinking something horrid must have happened to dad, and here's how the convo went:

Mum: "Honey, what's the name of that European lingerie store on Dresden Row?"

Me: "Mum! You scared the life out of me. I thought this was an emergency!"

Mum: "Well, it IS an emergency! I'm not going to drive all the way to the city without calling the lingerie store to make sure they have my size!"

Me: "I have to go to a meeting. Love you."

She managed to find the name of the lingerie store -- by calling back my assistant and making her look in the Yellow Pages. Mum's glad she went to the lingerie shop, btw. She found out she has been wearing the wrong bra size all these years. It turns out she's a 32H! and she had to pay $300 for a nicely-fitting bra.

[January]

32H???!!!!!!! Oh my gosh, your poor Mom!

Mom finally got to go home today. She kept thanking me and thanking me for letting her stay here.

I was sick one night while she was here. I mentioned it above. Not only was I running a fever, but I was "tossing my cookies". I finally managed to get to sleep and Mom woke me up at 5:30 in the morning. She was standing over me calling my name over and over again. I said, "What's wrong, Mom?" She replied, "Nothing, I just want to know if you're ok." I have no idea how long she'd been standing beside the bed. Maybe I was making a weird noise, maybe she was lonely, I don't know. All I know is that I told her I was fine and that I was going back to sleep! lololol!!!

One time I spent the night at Mom's house. She wasn't feeling well and needed to sleep in her recliner to breathe better. I slept on the couch, which was only a couple of feet from her chair.

I had been worried that Mom would get up in the night and fall after I fell asleep. I had a very vivid dream that Mom had fallen in the kitchen and was trying to call my name so I could rescue her. I woke with a start and thought the dream was true so I screamed, "MOM!" at the top of my lungs. She was sound asleep in her chair and screamed, "WHAT?" at the top of her lungs. When she yelled, "What?" she scared me and I screamed. Then I got the giggles and Mom told me I was a terrible person and to go back to sleep. Everytime I think of that, I start giggling.

January, Ty for putting this up....at first I read it and it made me sad. As I could not remember laughing at the end. I laugh alot, so I knew there had to be something funny to remember.
Into my mind came the story of when my Mom first became ill. Every weekend we would travel 3 hours one way 3 hours back. Stay the weekend with them. Does not sound like much , but with 2 young kids it was at times.
Anyways, she slept in the living room, "hospital bed" and about 10 or 11 at night we were watching Tv with my kids.
Not much on at that hour for kids, so when my son turned on a cartoon. My Mom and I said how nice they put cartoons on for kids this late.
Half way threw the little cartoon people got a little bad.Swearing and other things. It was one of the first years of "SOUTH PARK"
My son was 10 ,my daughter 12.I think. They knew what they were watching.
OMG......My Mom and I laughed so hard...till we cryed.....
of course had to pull it together and make them change the channel and go too bed........
TY for making me remember there was still good times,
For I love to laugh........