these days, conversation with mum can be a very confusing. and thankfully, i have had quite a good many months of interactions with her to know that she meant something else when she said something illogical and simply kiv what she said until some sense appeared. take this morning for example...
as in all weekend mornings, i would sit by her side to watch the tv before we head out for breakfast. we were engaged in some mundane conversation about cream and moisturiser when she asked where the maid was. she had been missing all these while, mum said. erm, no, she's mopping the floor, i explained. and all of a sudden, she said she had lost her tube of cream, the cream that she had all along used to apply onto her nostril to manage her breathlessness. she added that she had all along hidden it inside her pillow case but was not able to find it this morning. i was kinda confused by what she said and asked for more details. she couldn't give me details other than insisting her tube of cream that she always hid in her pillow case was missing. finally, when the conversation was leading to no where, i simply told her there was no such cream as far as i knew and if need be, i would bring her to the pharmacy to look. she sounded a little pissed with my reply and simply said forget it. i knew she was not happy and asked further and again, she insisted she lost her tube of cream. and given that she mentioned her loss after she spoke about the maid, i could only guess she was half-suspecting it was the maid who stole it. but i didn't pursue further.
by this time, the maid, who had been mopping the bedroom floor appeared and told me that mum had asked her about her tube of cream too. and the maid sounded a little exasperated cos mum kept asking her for it. i knew that thing would go awry if i did not manage it well. i told the maid to leave mum alone for a while and thought for a while. hmmm... something that she kept in her pillow case. then i asked her - where is your handphone? mum, surprised by the sudden question, looked into her handbag. she couldn't find her handphone. i don't know where it is... she said. everything became clear to me then... i went into her bedroom, took her pillow and reach into the pillow case. her handphone was inside. i took it out and gave it to her. and i told her she must have confused the handphone for a tube of cream. she looked at it, and simply said... ya ya... and laughed it off.
as to why she spoke about a tube of cream for her breathlessness, here's my conclusion... (1) we were talking about creams and moisturiser at the point in time, (2) and thus, in an attempt to talk about her handphone, she had confused her handphone with a tube of cream, and (3) she sleeps with her oxygen tubing in her nostril to manage her breathlessness and when she sleeps, it was her habit to keep her handphone in the pillow case, and in wanting to talk about her handphone, everything associated with her sleeping habit got all mixed up. and so, it became a tube a cream that she used to manage her breathlessness, and that she always hide it inside her pillow... hmmm... challenging right? just need to get used to it and laugh it off. it has happened once too many times. and just today alone, such confusion appeared no less that 3-4 times. if i had not known her state of mind, i would have gone crazy and lost my patience.
lol!
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