Dementia has its lighter side. A lady was once telling me about her beloved husband - "we got married in 1927 you know". A quick bit of mental arithmetic suggested that this would make her around 100 years old, which she clearly was not. Later she told me she'd been born in 1946, so there was an obvious explanation.
"I think you may have got a bit mixed up," I suggested. "You were married in 1927 but weren't born until 1946 - you mean the other way round, don't you."
She looked at me like I was a bit slow. "Oh no, they had ways of sorting things like that out in those days".
Reflections on Dementia: Personal, Profssional, Theological, Musical
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