Mother-in-Law Had a Mid-Week Meltdown

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That's two this week. But this one was totally justified, to a point. She went to dinner around 5:30 pm. When she got back to her room around 6:15 pm and opened her door there was a man laying on her bed. Fully clothed, including shoes and eyeglasses, asleep and snoring, laying on top of her comforter, not under the covers. Then she smelled a smell and turned around and there was a woman in her bathroom in the act of pooping. MIL tried to assault the couple and then spray them down with bathroom air freshener. It was a whole scene. The Memory Care facility cleaned her bathroom and also cleaned her comforter and linens and pillows because MIL freaked out about "the dirty SOB laying on my bed." Okay, so the man and woman were husband and wife residents there also who have severe dementia. They mistakenly went into her room thinking it was theirs. Apparently they do this frequently and had already done it once earlier in the day to somebody else's room. We talked to the Director of the Memory Care and she will issue a new protocol that the husband/wife couple must be escorted to their rooms after every meal and monitored in the hallways at all times. It took two hours to talk the mother-in-law down after this traumatic experience and she was at first angry, then got mean, then turned back to sad. There was screaming and crying. This really threw a curveball into getting MIL to adjust to living there. I always attach a pink photo to posts about the mother-in-law because pink is her favorite color.