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wolf · 10-21-2009, 11:28 AM

Why don't they ever listen? momwolf is essentially cognitively intact, but that doesn't make her sensible in any significant sense of the word.

wolf: momwolf, you really need to keep more physically active, because that will keep the fluid from building up in your legs from the poor circulation ...

momwolf: that's not what causes it. You're just being mean.

wolf: momwolf, you can't use the heating pad. It looks like you have a burn blister there on your leg.

momwolf: That's a bruise.

wolf: No, that's a blister. You can see it.

momwolf: Stop contradicting me!

limey · 10-21-2009, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

...essentially cognitively intact, but that doesn't make her sensible in any significant sense of the word. ...

That is such a good description of my mum, too, wolf (at least when I last saw her a week ago

). She still plans to:
live on her own
have her two dogs move in to the nursing home
knows the names etc of friends of friends referred to in correspondence I read her
but didn't see that my having moved some of her belongings in to the home had a ... significance ...

Griff · 10-24-2009, 01:29 PM

Pete stopped in to see Dad this morning and was on the receiving end of a completely crazy political rant about our need to start nuking Afghanistan, Pakistan, and "that other country over there." He's reading Tom Clancy and completely missing the bit about his books being fiction. JFC!

10-21-2009, 11:28 AM	#1
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Why don't they ever listen? momwolf is essentially cognitively intact, but that doesn't make her sensible in any significant sense of the word. wolf: momwolf, you really need to keep more physically active, because that will keep the fluid from building up in your legs from the poor circulation ... momwolf: that's not what causes it. You're just being mean. wolf: momwolf, you can't use the heating pad. It looks like you have a burn blister there on your leg. momwolf: That's a bruise. wolf: No, that's a blister. You can see it. momwolf: Stop contradicting me! __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

10-24-2009, 01:29 PM	#3
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Pete stopped in to see Dad this morning and was on the receiving end of a completely crazy political rant about our need to start nuking Afghanistan, Pakistan, and "that other country over there." He's reading Tom Clancy and completely missing the bit about his books being fiction. JFC! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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