Flying Monkeys - I get it!

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As I have said before, my mother has dementia and is in a nursing home. Some

friends are staying in her condo this weekend and they met her neighbor.

One of the friends, P, called me this evening and was telling me how nice the

apartment was, etc., and she asked me if my mother had painted the murals. I

said yes. She then told me that the neighbor had told her that my mother was " a

brilliant woman. "

P. was joking saying therefore I must be brilliant, etc., ha ha.

Can anybody say Flying Monkey?

The neighbor has only known my mother for a few years, and they were all years

during which she was showing definite signs of dementia, was a hermit, couldn't

do anything for herself and tried to kill herself and was Baker acted.

Brilliant?

I told DD and DH - DH asked what planet the neighbor was living on and DD said

maybe the neighbor has dementia, lol, or maybe she's as crazy as my mother.

I totally get flying monkeys because of this one conversation! I can see how if

I was at a different place in my understanding of my mother's mental illness

someone saying something that contradicts something I know via personal

experience to be untrue (she was very far from brilliant) might start me to

questioning my version of reality. I might start to wonder if I was the crazy

one.

Amazing!

Em

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