![]() ![]() So that’s the pill pocketer story for the week. He told my aunt the headphones were going to pop his brain out they were so tight.- ha. My grandfather decided to have a talk with his roommate about it and I’m guessing it didn’t go so well as every time I am there, the radio is blaring. My aunt got him a pair of headphones so he could wear them in his room as his roommate has his TV and radio very loud all the time. The day was all about him, so of course he was well behaved! -ha He was on his best behavior and was happy and chatty. He turned 88 years old this past Sunday and we had a big family gathering at the nursing home to celebrate. While it’s funny sometimes, it’s pretty sad. Man, I hope I don’t end up as mixed up as he is at his age. He is NOT doing pushups, he just thinks he is. He asked me again yesterday, to bring him his knee pads because his knees hurt from doing pushups. Each day that passes, he gets a little worse with confusion and sometimes, he thinks he’s in his 30’s doing push ups in the military. Prior to putting him in the Nursing Home full time, the doctors recommended that we explain to him that the medications needed to be monitored 24/7 by professionals at the nursing home and until they could figure out his med dosage, he would need to stay there. I am partially to blame for that thinking because the only way we could get him to go to the nursing home voluntarily 4 months ago, was to convince him that his medications needed to be adjusted for his dementia and diabetes. You see, my grandfather thinks that once his meds are adjusted, he can come home. I am sure he isn’t the first resident to pocket his pills! -ha. I never had to take them before and I’m not going to start now.” Now he is known as the pill pocketer. The nurse was like, “what do you mean, the pill burns your tongue?” His response was, “I am not taking those pills anymore. Hmmmm, clearly he had thought that through prior in case he got caught. BUT he got caught while my other aunt was there and he claimed, the pill was burning his tongue and that’s why he took it out of his mouth. Now, I have been there when the nurses give meds and they literally watch him swallow so at first, I thought he was just being difficult with my gram and trying to aggravate her, by saying he wasn’t taking them. My grandmother ratted him out a couple weeks ago telling my aunt that he has been putting his pills in his pocket and pretending to swallow them. I kiddingly call him, “gramps the pill pocketer.” If you follow us on social media media, you know he turned 88 years old this past weekend and he has been hiding his pills in his pocket after the nurse leaves. However, he has reverted back to being a kid in some sense.
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