You've got to laugh or you'll tear hair!

[Guest guest]

Just have to share this story with you. Last Saturday

my husband, Jim, was in one of his confused states and

he was adamant about going for a ride. It was early

morning and I still wasn't dressed for the day and I

was in the bathroom getting washed up when I heard

" HELP!. " Jim had pushed his way up to the front door

in his transport chair, opened the front door and

pulled himself up out of the chair by holding onto the

door frame and had the front wheels of his transport

chair over the door step and he was hanging on for

dear life. I got him back into his chair and away from

the door and double bolted it, because he can't figure

out how to open the top lock, it needs a key to unlock

it from the inside. I continued to attempt to get

myself ready, so that I could take him for a ride, but

he was screaming and pulling and twisting the door

knob and he couldn't get out and he was shouting, "

HELP, MY WIFE HAS PENNED ME IN, SOMEBODY HELP! " He

repeated this over and over shouting the loudest that

he could. Thank goodness we live far enough between

houses that he wasn't heard. I told him we would leave

as soon as I could get ready and I told him it was

time for his pills. He needed to take the Seroquel to

calm down before I would take him for a ride, but he

refused his pills and threw them on the floor and I

tried to get it in his mouth, but he was refusing to

take it and said I was trying to poison him. He said,

" I never knew you were like this. I can't believe that

you could do something like this. " He tried to dial

the phone for help, but just dialed numbers at random

and was frustrated, so I told him l would dial for

him, but he didn't trust me. He wanted to call his Day

Program and complain to a staff member that he has

bonded to, I told him it's Saturday and no one is

there, but he insisted, so I dialed the number and

only a recording answered and he said, " See, I told

you they are there " He told the recording that he

wanted to speak to , but he got no response

and never came to the phone, so he gave up.

I told him we will go for a ride when you take your

pills, but he insisted that I was trying to poison

him, so he wouldn't take them. I told him I would

drive him to the Day Program if he took his pills and

so finally he agreed to take them and I let them

absorb into his body for awhile and then he was calm

enough to go out the door and we drove to the Day

Program and not a car was in the parking lot and he

looked at me and said, " You are right, no one is here,

it must be Saturday. " The rest of the day was ok after

all this was settled and he totally forgot about it

all after a few hours.

On Monday, when I picked Jim up from his Day Program,

I told about our day on Saturday and that he

wanted to talk to her and she said, that he had told

her that he came to see her, but she and the children

weren't there when he came. said that she

was trying to figure out what he had meant.

You've gotta see humor in it somedays or you'll tear

hair! Hugs to you all, Jan

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