2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Breaking News Surgeon General Issues New Warning [View all]tpsbmam
(3,927 posts)when you're deep in the heart of dementia with someone you love, it's pretty overwhelming and may be hard to see the funny in a post like this.
The person most beloved to me in the world....my grandmother......died of Alzheimer's in 1973, when few people had heard of the disease. She was the person in my life who was always in my corner, standing up to her daughter (my mother) when she and my father were mean to me. She was my "person."
Perhaps I'm just further distanced from her death, though hers is the picture you'll find throughout my house and she remains absolutely beloved by me and always will.....I think it's funny.
But your reaction is, indeed, understandable. Not everyone who is in your place reacts the same, so others whose loved ones have dementia saying they think it's funny just don't have the same reaction as you. Doesn't make yours wrong.....at all.
Hugs to you and your wife.