Beaufort to Nanageddon

Posted On 1 October, 2019

Dementia is a terrible disease. It affects the person in so many ways. It’s not just about forgetting things it is the brain slowly shutting down and leaving only the important functions operating, you know like breathing.

Because mum has been out of routine and familiar places it has hit a times quite badly. Dementia sufferers can get cranky, childish, irrational, self absorbed, obsessed, etc. Well mum has been all of these the last couple of days. It can go from happy Nana to Nanageddon at the flick of a switch.

We stopped in Horsham to get a memory foam mattress top for our bed because two pampered fools needed extra cushioning for their not so old bones. We also needed a couple of things from a camping store to make Emily warmer in her tent. So we parked outside Harvey Norman and got mum out of the car. She couldn’t understand why she couldn’t just stay in the car. Inside Harvey Norman she was just grumpy. On the way to the Camping Store we passed a Skate shop with kids clothes on a rack out front.

Nana, “Stop I want to look at the clothes”.

Me, “They are kids skate clothes”.

Nana, “I want to look nobody lets me do anything”.

Me, “You just stocked up on clothes, at Black Pepper your favourite shop, for the trip”.

Nana, “cranky, childish, irrational, self absorbed, obsessed, etc talk”

Inside the camping shop.

Nana, “I want to look at those socks”.

Me, “They are Men’s socks”.

Nana, “Well I can wear them if I want”.

Me, “You already have socks, fine here they are”.

Now in Dimboola a walk down the Main Street.

Nana, “woo woo woo I want to look in this shop”.

Me, “It’s a men’s shop”.

Nana, “I want to look at those socks”. (Why is it always about socks? ?)

Nina, “Look a great big skink”. (Quickly past the men’s shop to the bakery). “Oh the skink has disappeared off”.

Nina, “Do you want a pie, sausage roll, or sandwich”.

Nana, “I will have a ham sandwich for a change”.

Outside the bakery eating lunch.

Nina, “My pie is nice”.

Nana, “lucky for some. I’m not allowed to have one”.

Nina, “You asked for a sandwich”.

Nana, “cranky, childish, irrational, self absorbed, obsessed, etc. talk”.

Nina has been copping the brunt of the irrational grumpy Nana. She has gone from her sh!t not stinking to it apparently jumping all over Nana and making a terrible stink.

I have had to take over when mums in a funk so Nina doesn’t keep copping it. We can’t leave Emily alone with her because it just triggers irrational craziness.

She is getting better since we have taken her for some drives but we need to stay clear of any shops especially those selling socks.