Gotta love my Residents!

I have a resident on my dementia unit that everyone says she's a firecracker! 😂 I haven't ever seen that side of her. She's in her 90s, and she's a true Southern Belle, and she really doesn't look her age. Whenever I go on the unit her eyes light up and she becks for me and I'll go Hi Mrs. Jones (not her real name) How are you? She'll go. Oh I'm okay, then she says you look mighty pretty today, and then y'all, she inspects me 🤣😂🤣😂 she looks me over, and she touches my dresses, looks at the hem of them, and feels the fabric. She'll wink her eye at me, and she covers her mouth and whispers I approve of you. 😂 She does this every single time I come on the unit. The nurses on the unit say she calls them her hired help. 😂 I gotta dig and see what her profession was back in the day. I'm glad she approves of me though but I can't help but think what I'm approved of......... 🫣🤫🫢🤭😂

*I don't hold my Residents accountable for what they say I've been in the medical field for so long that I know people with dementia say things that they would never say if they were in their right mind.

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Adrift · 61-69, F

I had one woman i went to check on that the kitchen gave her a peanut butter sandwich instead of the ham and cheese that she had asked for.
She was in bed with the covers pulled up to her chin, the sandwich sitting on her beside table.
I offered to take the peanut butter and exchange it for the ham and cheese that she wanted.
She said, "No because come tomorrow morning I am going to take that dried up ol sandwich and shove it right up the cooks a$$."
Gotta love em.😂

PEACH4LIFE · 46-50, F

@Adrift Some of them are so hilarious 😂 I promise it's never a dull day around here. I call mine my children (not to their face) I'll go home and be like "welp my children wore me out today!" 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

Maybe a seamstress?
I wanna know too now, go find out!

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Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

@PEACH4LIFE Nope. I only hand sew diy mini projects so far. But if I had a sewing machine maybe I'd become as skilled as grandma.

PEACH4LIFE · 46-50, F

@Queendragonfly that would be a great skill!!! I have a sewing machine as well I'm not great but I do okay. I wished I would've paid more attention to my relatives growing up. I had some awesome seamstresses in my family. My mother in law made my wedding dress years ago. I have it put up in my closet I think I'll hold on to it forever...

ArtieKat · M

@Queendragonfly My maternal grandparents were tailors too - during WWII my grandfather made underwear out of parachute silk lol

Lilred2289 · 31-35, F

This is such a cute story. She’s right to approve of you…whatever that means lol 🤣

PEACH4LIFE · 46-50, F

@Lilred2289 whatever it means! I have her approval. I'm glad I'm on her good side. 😂 They say she can be really mean but she's never been mean to me. She's one of my favorites.

Lilred2289 · 31-35, F

@PEACH4LIFE that’s because you’re a kind soul. I bet it would be hard to be mean to you!

PEACH4LIFE · 46-50, F

@Lilred2289 Awww thanks. I try to treat everyone kind. 🙂

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