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My mother, as it turns out, has dementia. I suspected but it was only recently diagnosed. Mom has been in hospitals & now in a care facility because she contracted COVID in early December. We’re limited to telephone talks because there’s a pandemic going on which is trickier than I thought. Conversations last 30-60+ minutes mostly because of what I call the Conversational Loops. Each loop has from one to four topics; we start with one, move through the topics and then begin again as if we’ve not already talked about it. It’s the dementia, so I try to be patient but there are times, like today, when it was more challenging than usual. When the call ended, I took a minute then walked downstairs for a break. During my telling of the call, my SO -who apparently had listened to my side of the call from downstairs- did what they often do. That is, not to acknowledge the words I’d just said about the sadness & despair of dementia, but to begin criticizing my mother in a loud, “jokey” voice. “What, she thinks you’re a doctor asking how long COVID will last?! She thinks you’re in charge of transferring patients back to their retirement homes?!” I simply said “STOP. That is not helpful.” And came back upstairs. I don’t understand how someone could find words like those to be helpful. Saying or hearing them. Right? I wanted nothing more than to be heard, perhaps an understanding nod, or a hug. Not to be rolled over by a loud oral fart. (The word version of an anal rocket fart - endless & loud.) Communicating with humans can be so troubling, can’t it? Maybe I should have prefaced my words with “I seek a listener now.” Or I could make flip-signs with a variety of messages, like “Be a Listener!” and “Advice, please!” and “I’m about to say a funny thing,” and so on.

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