Marriage Proposal

Old man:  "Will you marry me?
Old woman:  "Why?"
Old man:  "It seems like a good idea"
Old woman:  "No"
Old man:  Okay, I'll try again tomorrow..."

Dementia 104

As we started our usual Friday Group in the Dementia Section (all that was different this week from the previous week is the green clothes of my 4th year OT student who joined in), Mrs S(ilence) who almost never says a word, took my student's hand and said:
 "You truly are the one"  "Let's run away together"

I know I am on my farm when...

• There is a sign in the kitchen saying "Welcome to the Nuthouse"
• I wake up with cows mooing and a rooster telling me it is way too early to be awake
• Everyone talks at the same time, all the time
• There is very bad cellphone reception
• I see photos of our childhood where we all wore exactly the same clothes (called The Christmas Collection)
• My grandfather and grandmother comes to visit every night at exactly the same time and sits silently and amazed by all the activity going on around them
• We eat non-stop (3 big meals and millions of snacks in between)
• I see my "Thinking Spot" from my childhood (two trees that used to be small and have a space to sit in between to think, but now have grown up(just like me) and has no more space in between for me to sit and think
• I walk out the door and can look into the future (it really feels like that when I can stare into endless fields stretching out forever in front of me)
• Geese try to attack me at least once a day
• We make the same jokes as 10 years before with each other and still laugh as if it is the first time we've ever made that joke
• I can smell pig poo when I poke my nose out the door
• We fight and tease and talk a lot of nonsense, but we all know we love each other more than life itself
• We have quiet time with the Lord every evening (when you are younger and it is in your favorite TV program's time, this does not make you happy, but now I realise that this is one of the most special memories of my childhood and something I miss so much when I am not here)
• There is 8 dogs (1 that can smile) and 45 cats (this number drops whenever a dog gets hold of one off them) and 1 horse (we used to have a Spanish donkey, but she sadly passed away)
• I feel completely peaceful and at Home...