Sometimes You Just Have to Find the Fun

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It's hard to describe anything related to dementia as "fun," but some days you do have to struggle to find the lighter side of it just to get through it. It's never easy. It's very sad to watch someone you love and have known all your life become a different person. My mom is at the stage where she's seeing people that aren't there, and now it seems she thinks these people are stealing her things. The other day when I was out with mom doing our normal twice a week routine, just to get her out of the house and add a little fun to her life, she told me she figured out who was stealing her cookies. Apparently, it is a heavy-set woman. So, I sent a voice text to our group, which consists of my wife and sister and brother-in-law (mom lives with my sister and brother-in-law), and told them, "This is not a social text. Please get your house under control. There is a heavy-set woman eating mom's cookies." On Thursday, when I was over preparing some meals for mom to eat, I decided to have some fun with AI, and took a picture of the great room across from the kitchen and told it to put a heavy-set woman in it, eating cookies. I added the caption, "WTF, people?" It got a good laugh.