THIS IS HOW UNPREDICTABLE DEMENTIA CAN BE… 😳💔 | Nan thought she was a cat!

Ajouté : 2026-05-11

[00:00:06]Hello.

[00:00:08]Are you all right?

[00:00:13]>> I'm making I love you.

[00:00:16]>> Oh, I love you, too. What drink would you like today?

[00:00:20]>> Pardon?

[00:00:20]>> Would you like a drink?

[00:00:22]>> Oh, yes, Mom. Please.

[00:00:24]>> What would you like?

[00:00:26]>> Anything you already got? I've got some black currant juice.

[00:00:31]>> I don't want that.

[00:00:33]>> I've got orange juice.

[00:00:35]>> That could do. Orange juice. Yes. My favorite.

[00:00:38]>> Oh, or I've got a cup of tea.

[00:00:41]>> I love a cup of tea instead. Yeah.

[00:00:44]>> I thought you might. Do you have two sugars in it?

[00:00:47]>> Dad's made it.

[00:00:48]>> Oh, I'll go get you a cup of tea then.

[00:00:51]Love you.

[00:00:55]Oh, I've got you some breakfast as well.

[00:00:58]Wow.

[00:00:59]>> Oh, how amazing. I've got you some breakfast and a cup of tea.

[00:01:03]>> I'll drink that and I'll take you full one.

[00:01:06]>> Oh, thank you.

[00:01:08]>> A full bottle.

[00:01:09]>> A full bottle?

[00:01:11]>> Yes.

[00:01:12]>> Oh, >> you alone and me.

[00:01:15]>> Oh, that would be good. Thank you. Would you like some breakfast on the table?

[00:01:21]>> I've just put it on the table. My mom said, "Can you give me a cup of tea?" We got none.

[00:01:28]>> Oh, well, I've got you a cup of tea and some breakfast.

[00:01:31]>> Yeah.

[00:01:32]>> Oh, where are you? Oh, >> here.

[00:01:36]>> Oh, that's lovely.

[00:01:37]>> Is it nice?

[00:01:39]>> Big porridge.

[00:01:40]>> It's like porridge. It's called Wheat Bixs.

[00:01:45]>> It's lovely, Mommy.

[00:01:47]>> Have you had a nice morning?

[00:01:49]>> Yes. Lovely. Thank you.

[00:01:51]>> Good. My granny gave me some bread and dripping.

[00:01:55]>> Did she was it nice?

[00:01:58]>> Lovely.

[00:01:59]>> Oh, good. I've not seen your granny today. She must be at the garden center.

[00:02:05]>> Yes. Lovely.

[00:02:06]>> It's lovely and sunny out there today.

[00:02:09]Nan has just ate all of her weab bits and her porridge.

[00:02:13]>> She's done so well in the land.

[00:02:15]>> Oh, it's the best chocolate in the land, is it?

[00:02:17]>> It is. Yes, mommy. We're going in now with some chocolate arrow balls and a cup of tea. Here we are, dearest.

[00:02:24]>> That's like the best cake in the land.

[00:02:27]>> Oh, >> that's why we come here every Friday.

[00:02:31]>> Oh, best place in the world.

[00:02:33]>> Yes.

[00:02:34]>> What's your favorite cake?

[00:02:37]>> Chocolate cake.

[00:02:38]>> Oh, me too. I love chocolate cake. Want some more?

[00:02:42]>> Have you had any?

[00:02:44]>> I've not had it from here before.

[00:02:46]>> It's lovely. How much is it?

[00:02:49]>> There's one free for you.

[00:02:52]>> Free? Wow.

[00:02:56]>> That's incredible. I can hear your herinade whistling. Let's have a little look.

[00:03:04]>> My mommy said I can have all that.

[00:03:08]>> Really?

[00:03:09]>> Don't say my friends.

[00:03:12]>> Oh, what's your friends called?

[00:03:14]>> Yes. What are their names?

[00:03:17]>> Oh, nice friends. Mommy.

[00:03:20]>> Oh, how many friends have you got here?

[00:03:25]>> I'm sure you've got lots of lovely friends.

[00:03:28]>> Somebody come in your car. Look.

[00:03:30]>> Oh, yeah. What they doing?

[00:03:32]>> Somebody come in your car. Look.

[00:03:35]>> I know. What they doing? Would you like a nice cup of tea?

[00:03:40]>> I got some more biscuits. Mommy, I need cake.

[00:03:45]>> Oh, have a little bit of this to wash it down.

[00:03:50]>> Oh, that's lovely, Mom.

[00:03:52]>> Oh, good. Some more.

[00:03:54]>> That's lovely. That cake.

[00:03:56]>> Oh, good. Any good?

[00:04:00]What are you going to do today then?

[00:04:02]>> I do like it. It's lovely.

[00:04:05]>> Oh, you like it? Good cake.

[00:04:08]>> You like it, don't you, Mom?

[00:04:09]>> I do. Yeah. Well, then I like it.

[00:04:13]>> A >> what do you like? I like >> a That's so lovely. Well, I like >> I know my name's Nanny.

[00:04:24]>> Oh, my name's Nanny.

[00:04:26]What's your name?

[00:04:28]>> Where's my daddy?

[00:04:29]>> Daddy? I think he's gone out in the garden today.

[00:04:33]>> Oh, >> he's sorting out them plants in the greenhouse.

[00:04:38]Have you been outside today?

[00:04:41]Yes, >> it's lovely out there. Got the sunshine, blue skies.

[00:04:49]>> I know. It's lovely.

[00:04:50]>> The birds are singing.

[00:04:52]>> It's lovely out here, Mommy.

[00:04:54]>> It is. It's not even fresh air.

[00:04:57]>> Yeah, fresh air. Not even raining today.

[00:05:00]Oh, when the saints go maring in.

[00:05:07]When the saints go maring in, I want to be in that number when the saints go maring in.

[00:05:27]>> Are you enjoy your dinner? I have. Thank you.

[00:05:31]>> Oh, my dad's going to eat mine now.

[00:05:36]>> What you going to have today?

[00:05:38]>> I'm going to have chocolate arrow.

[00:05:42]>> Is that what you've had?

[00:05:43]>> I have. Yeah.

[00:05:44]>> I thought it was. Yeah.

[00:05:47]>> I love chocolate arrow.

[00:05:49]>> I do. It's lovely. Chocolate arrow.

[00:05:53]>> I might as well bring the bag over at this point. Incoming chocolate ball. Oh, it's lovely.

[00:06:00]>> It's nice, isn't it?

[00:06:02]>> Chocolate ball.

[00:06:04]>> Are they your favorites? Or do you like galaxy chocolate?

[00:06:09]>> Yes, please.

[00:06:10]>> Oh, I like that one. You got Cadbury's chocolate dairy milk. That's a good one.

[00:06:17]You've got Milky Way. Milky Bar.

[00:06:22]>> Yes, please.

[00:06:23]>> What other chocolates do we have? M >> I don't want any more chocolate. I'm having dinner.

[00:06:30]>> Oh, sorry. I'll save the chocolate chat for a different time.

[00:06:35]>> It's lovely, Mommy.

[00:06:37]>> Good.

[00:06:39]How do you do? How do you do?

[00:06:43]>> Thank you.

[00:06:43]>> Hello, Nan. How do you do? How do you do? How do you do? Hello, Jean. in the house.

[00:06:53]>> Who do you love best, Mom?

[00:06:56]>> Who do I love best?

[00:06:58]>> I forgot what you said.

[00:06:59]>> I said who about?

[00:07:01]>> A bath now.

[00:07:03]>> Oh, a bath.

[00:07:05]>> Oh, not yet, Mommy.

[00:07:06]>> Okay, we'll have it later.

[00:07:07]>> I've had breakfast.

[00:07:09]>> Oh, goodness.

[00:07:12]That's a bit of a rushed morning, isn't it?

[00:07:14]>> I've just had me breakfast, mommy.

[00:07:17]>> I know.

[00:07:18]>> Yes.

[00:07:18]>> Yeah, we'll wait a bit longer.

[00:07:20]>> Beautiful breakfast. That was easy, didn't he?

[00:07:23]>> Oh, lovely.

[00:07:24]>> So, you want the same napkin?

[00:07:26]>> Oh, I will.

[00:07:27]>> So, can I have the same post as my mother's just had?

[00:07:32]>> Oh, >> because she loves it.

[00:07:35]>> Oh, good. Yeah, I'll definitely have.

[00:07:36]>> Can you kiss now?

[00:07:38]>> Oh, >> wow.

[00:07:42]>> Wow.

[00:07:45]>> Wow. Wow. Wow.

[00:07:47]>> I've not seen your smile today.

[00:07:50]Where's your smile gone? Where is it?

[00:07:56]>> You've lost your smile.

[00:07:58]>> I don't know where it is now.

[00:08:02]>> He's going to have to go.

[00:08:04]>> He hasn't.

[00:08:06]>> He has.

[00:08:07]>> You're joking.

[00:08:09]>> Cuz he's got some chocolate for him.

[00:08:12]>> He's bought them chocolate >> for the girls. Yeah.

[00:08:16]>> Oh, goodness.

[00:08:17]>> I need for the girls. Oh, not the birds.

[00:08:20]>> Yeah, >> I don't think the birds will eat the chocolate. Heidi boo.

[00:08:27]Heidi boo.

[00:08:29]>> He hid >> No more. I'd rather drink it.

[00:08:37]>> Oh, that sounds good to me.

[00:08:39]>> A red car out there.

[00:08:42]>> Oh, that is yours. Uh, I don't have a red.

[00:08:48]>> Oh, it's lovely.

[00:08:50]>> I wonder whose it is. I bet it's the postman.

[00:08:56]>> Do you think >> it could be the postman that chocolate?

[00:09:02]>> Hang on. Here's your drink first. I'll have to start calling you Mrs. Chocolate.

[00:09:08]>> Chocolate cheese.

[00:09:09]>> Biscuit. Chocolate biscuit.

[00:09:11]>> Oh, you enjoy it then.

[00:09:13]>> Oh, that's lovely. Oh god. So sometimes we go through fixations like this with chocolate. It is more food orientated where now we'll fixate on it for a really long period of time. So chocolate seems to be that one for us today. But that's okay. We're working through it.

[00:09:28]>> Lovely.

[00:09:29]>> God, it's a lovely day out there today.

[00:09:33]Beautiful sunshine.

[00:09:37]You know what they say about sunshine?

[00:09:41]They say you are my sunshine.

[00:09:46]You make me happy. When you >> know, dear some chocolate.

[00:09:57]>> I did.

[00:09:59]>> Don't take my chocolates away. But I love >> Oh, you singing all day. A negative tire just to that grandma.

[00:10:12]>> No, she doesn't.

[00:10:14]>> Rose wants to dance to you thingy.

[00:10:16]>> I know she does.

[00:10:18]>> Me out.

[00:10:19]>> Would you like to do some painting with me?

[00:10:22]>> Put that on my lip.

[00:10:24]>> I haven't got any chocolate left. We're going to do some painting now. I've got some paper here, Mom.

[00:10:33]Mom, >> we've got a lighthouse or a boat.

[00:10:39]>> Put a little chocolate on my tongue, please.

[00:10:42]>> I haven't got any chocolate, so we're going to do some painting now. Would you like to help me? We'll get a paintbrush.

[00:10:50]That one's for you there. Look, have this hand. Look. Let's leave that there.

[00:10:55]Look. Pop that down. Would you like to do some painting?

[00:10:59]>> I've had a bite now.

[00:11:00]>> Oh, good. Here we go. Jean, this one's for you. That's your painting brush.

[00:11:07]>> What's that?

[00:11:08]>> That's your painting brush.

[00:11:10]>> That's cold. I don't want that.

[00:11:13]>> I don't want that.

[00:11:14]>> Oh, you don't want that one. Okay.

[00:11:16]>> Shall I do it for us? Do some painting.

[00:11:21]Everything's going in the mouth today, but that's okay. Guess who's come to see you today? Tracy's here.

[00:11:30]Can you say hello, Tracy?

[00:11:33]Hello, Tracy. Are we having chocolate today?

[00:11:36]>> I haven't got any more chocolate left.

[00:11:38]>> Oh, thank you.

[00:11:40]>> That's your paintbrush.

[00:11:44]>> It's really interesting though, isn't it? Cuz she probably thinks that that's food.

[00:11:48]>> Yeah.

[00:11:49]>> Is that nice?

[00:11:50]>> No. V.

[00:11:51]>> Oh, good. Well, that's the painting we've done so far. I love these sheets.

[00:11:57]They're so good.

[00:11:59]Hello. How do you do? How do you do? How do you do? How do you do?

[00:12:05]>> I don't want that out that chocolate.

[00:12:08]>> Oh. Oh, there's another one here for you. One more. Gone.

[00:12:14]>> Oh, that's nice.

[00:12:15]>> That's the last one.

[00:12:17]>> Chocolate ball.

[00:12:18]>> There's no more left now. We need >> Yeah. I have to go to the shop.

[00:12:25]>> Look like he's come back for his car back.

[00:12:28]>> Oh, what's he doing for his car?

[00:12:32]Did he leave it here?

[00:12:34]You'll have to tell him to use his bike.

[00:12:37]>> Has he got a bike instead of his car?

[00:12:41]>> May I go out, mommy? Where you want?

[00:12:43]Where do you want to go?

[00:12:45]>> Anywhere.

[00:12:46]>> Oh, you tell me where you'd like to go and I'll take you.

[00:12:50]>> All right. Do you want to go and see your sister?

[00:12:54]>> Yes.

[00:12:55]>> A >> What's your sister called?

[00:12:58]>> Nobody caring anything. Everybody call me Ginger.

[00:13:02]>> Oh.

[00:13:03]>> Oh, >> they always call me Ginger Nut. Ginger nut.

[00:13:08]>> I think we should call her Nora.

[00:13:12]Squeeze. Squeeze. Squeeze.

[00:13:16]Squeeze. Squeeze.

[00:13:17]>> What game?

[00:13:19]>> Nothing. I just want I thought he was asleep.

[00:13:22]>> If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.

[00:13:27]If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.

[00:13:31]If you're happy and you know it, do you really want to show it? If you're happy and you know it, clap your clap your clap your hands. Woohoo!

[00:13:49]If you're happy and you know it, shout hooray!

[00:13:53]Hooray!

[00:13:55]If you're happy and you know it, shout hooray.

[00:14:00]Hooray.

[00:14:03]If you're happy and you know it.

[00:14:06]>> I think you >> and you really want to show it. If you're thirsty and you know it, clap your hands. Woo! Woo!

[00:14:16]You're not joining in today?

[00:14:19]Just clapping.

[00:14:21]Oh, when the saints go marching in, when the saints go maring in, I want to be in that number.

[00:14:38]When the saints go marching in bom bom dad >> yeah dad's car I've cleaned it this morning it's clean >> yeah nice and shiny and clean >> best not make a mess of it then >> no definitely not what color is it >> black >> oh man is coming down and you need to see it.

[00:15:10]>> Oh, that'll be nice.

[00:15:12]>> And just like that, we're home. I've honestly found today just a little bit difficult with my nan. Um I think because she's had quite heavy fixations today. It's been really hard to distract Nan. Like some days are a little bit easier than others with distractions, but today was just particularly really rough and just a difficult day. It's one of those days where it feels like herade isn't working, but it is. She's just really distant in her dementia world.

[00:15:39]And days like today just make me really sad because it makes me miss the person that I saw yesterday and the day before even more so. And you grieve through these multiple versions of the person that you love that you meet each and every day. And today I just really grieve the bubbly bright nan that I saw two days ago where it was easier to have conversations. However, communication doesn't always have to have words, and I could feel that my mom was squeezing me every now and then with her hands, and she just seemed really tired today. So, I think maybe she just ran out of energy for talking and holding conversations and being a little bit more present in this reality. And it's just part of the journey really. But yes, another day in the Jmento world. Thank you so much for spending another day of that with us. We are so grateful. And as I always say, your love, your kindness, and support means the world to us. So, thank you truly from the bottom of my heart. We really are so grateful. Me and my mom read through all of the comments and every one of you is so special to us.

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[00:16:46]Now, bye everyone.