My mother's Alzheimer's causes her to have a very short attention span. I'd say that she behaves like a child, but it's really more like a puppy, distracted by every sound, every leaf and every shiny thing.
One of the things she seems obsessed with lately is reading everything. Not books or newspapers... but billboards, street signs, and posters.
On the way to the doctor's office: "No left turn... 7:00 am - 9:00 am."
At the doctor's office: "Say goodbye to blurry vision with the lastest in cataract lenses"... and on the screen "O - F - C - L - H"... (pretty impressive...her post-cataract-surgery-vision is better than mine).
On the way home: "No right turn on red".
And, of course, since she has Alzheimer's she doesn't remember that she's read them to me... so she reads each of those things over and over and over again.
I don't understand this obsession with reading signage... let alone reading it out loud... but it seems to make her happy... seems to hold her interest.
"I'm loving it".
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