“It’s all fun and games until somebody is diagnosed with a tragic neurological disorder.”
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Remember, the Doctor only said that it might be Alzheimer’s. I’m guessing that it isn’t. There are several easily treated conditions that can cause memory loss in older people.
I’m gonna guess it’s vitamin B12 deficiency, and Cynthia is going to work it out.
Well…. I’ve noticed it’s a trend of this So Very Aware and Emotional Aware and Acknowledged Age, that we are pretending we are sophisticated and intelligent in this day of tragic conditions and circumstance that we can still laugh knowingly at these comical consequences. We can laugh when our ninety-year old mother walks down the street in her bathrobe calling for her childhood cat because we *recognize* how incongruous it is and we know that the eventual decline and final years in a deficient hull of her former self is just part of the way things are now and we can all relate sympathetically and chuckle at the absurd futility of it all.
Except…..
We *think* and *pretend* we are at the stage of maturity and can do that but we actually can’t and aren’t there. We really aren’t. It’s not funny…. it’s just tragic.
…….
t’s kind of related to the South Park and Farley Brothers insistence that it’s actually okay to laugh at the handicapped because they know they are handicapped and accept that the situation is inevitable yet absurd– so hey, it’s all the Politically Correct people who are *really* the disrespectful one and ….they’re actually the heroes and saviors for daring to say the truth….. Except …. *blech!!!!!*
Right, I’m going to go pop a B12 under my tongue.
Don’t forget, we’re in the reboot of For Better Or For Worse. She’s going to kill Farley again. I don’t want to see it. I’m glad that my local paper doesn’t carry Crankshaft if that strip is still around. As for Barney & Clyde, I don’t remember it being this kind of strip when it started, but neither was Crankshaft.
“Don’t forget, we’re in the reboot of For Better Or For Worse. She’s going to kill Farley again.”
To be fair she never thought the Death of Farley was supposed to be *funny*.
If the whole thing turns out to be a Vitamin B12 issue, then they’ll have succeeded in trivializing Alzheimer’s.
They’re in no-win territory.
In what way?
I actually think it’s quite nice that Cynthia is showing kindness and respect to her aging grandfather. She doesn’t exhibit much of either quality with her father, stepmother, teachers or administrators. For me, this arc is humanizing her, making her a somewhat more well-rounded character. Of course, her dad doesn’t really give his father much respect or kindness. In the past, Cynthia tended to collude a bit with her grandfather in the never-ending battle against Barney. This could be a natural continuation of that trend. Regardless, it makes me happy to see her working for Grandpa’s best interests, which probably wouldn’t be how Barney would handle it. For me, it’s more sweet and sentimental than laugh out loud funny. And I’m okay with that.
I agree with Dan5
woozy – would that my 90 year old mom would just be walking down the street in her robe. She “hears” her relatively new neighbors of 2 years who she has never met talking about her. Generally about pleasant things – such as on her birthday they were going to have it announced on a specific radio station, but she is upset as they plan to buy her house and the one on the other side and a open a school for children to learn to be Republicans (why this should bother her, not sure as she is one). Worst of all was when she heard them plotting to kill her and called the police – at 4 am and then told them to call us when they asked who to call (3 daughters – why us? “Well you live the closet, don’t have to go to work in the morning and I figured you would still be awake). That is is the most annoying part – she has total logic – she questions why/how they would know it was birthday so it makes no sense to her, when I asked her if she really thought they were going to kill her “no, but why take a chance”. Using logic – after calling the police she packed up all her good jewelry and took it, her purse and house keys, locked the door, and left the house and started walking (remember at 4 am). Police officer said another few minutes and it would have been a missing person’s case.
Meryl A.
Yeah but you can laugh at it, right?
(Ingredient Label of above comment; Irony, cynicism, trace amounts of frustration, empathy for binding purposes.)
woozy – Not really. She is now in assisted living – it was suppose to be temporary until she realized she could not live alone and then moved to an apartment with aides, but she likes it there – and we have to go and deal with all the stuff in the house, but being around people seems to have cleared her head enough that she no longer hears the voices or music. Luckily for me, daughter number 2 (I am daughter number 1) has it all figured out and is in charge. I have go and clear out my old bedroom – I know about 5 things there I want – and one is to try to donate – but I am sure I will find other stuff to keep. There is a plea to my two sisters in case they come across the table cloth I embroidered while in high school and could not find when I got married.
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Remember, the Doctor only said that it might be Alzheimer’s. I’m guessing that it isn’t. There are several easily treated conditions that can cause memory loss in older people.
https://www.sunriseseniorliving.com/blog/august-2017/9-treatable-conditions-that-mimic-alzheimers-disease.aspx
I’m gonna guess it’s vitamin B12 deficiency, and Cynthia is going to work it out.
Well…. I’ve noticed it’s a trend of this So Very Aware and Emotional Aware and Acknowledged Age, that we are pretending we are sophisticated and intelligent in this day of tragic conditions and circumstance that we can still laugh knowingly at these comical consequences. We can laugh when our ninety-year old mother walks down the street in her bathrobe calling for her childhood cat because we *recognize* how incongruous it is and we know that the eventual decline and final years in a deficient hull of her former self is just part of the way things are now and we can all relate sympathetically and chuckle at the absurd futility of it all.
Except…..
We *think* and *pretend* we are at the stage of maturity and can do that but we actually can’t and aren’t there. We really aren’t. It’s not funny…. it’s just tragic.
…….
t’s kind of related to the South Park and Farley Brothers insistence that it’s actually okay to laugh at the handicapped because they know they are handicapped and accept that the situation is inevitable yet absurd– so hey, it’s all the Politically Correct people who are *really* the disrespectful one and ….they’re actually the heroes and saviors for daring to say the truth….. Except …. *blech!!!!!*
Right, I’m going to go pop a B12 under my tongue.
Don’t forget, we’re in the reboot of For Better Or For Worse. She’s going to kill Farley again. I don’t want to see it. I’m glad that my local paper doesn’t carry Crankshaft if that strip is still around. As for Barney & Clyde, I don’t remember it being this kind of strip when it started, but neither was Crankshaft.
“Don’t forget, we’re in the reboot of For Better Or For Worse. She’s going to kill Farley again.”
To be fair she never thought the Death of Farley was supposed to be *funny*.
If the whole thing turns out to be a Vitamin B12 issue, then they’ll have succeeded in trivializing Alzheimer’s.
They’re in no-win territory.
In what way?
I actually think it’s quite nice that Cynthia is showing kindness and respect to her aging grandfather. She doesn’t exhibit much of either quality with her father, stepmother, teachers or administrators. For me, this arc is humanizing her, making her a somewhat more well-rounded character. Of course, her dad doesn’t really give his father much respect or kindness. In the past, Cynthia tended to collude a bit with her grandfather in the never-ending battle against Barney. This could be a natural continuation of that trend. Regardless, it makes me happy to see her working for Grandpa’s best interests, which probably wouldn’t be how Barney would handle it. For me, it’s more sweet and sentimental than laugh out loud funny. And I’m okay with that.
I agree with Dan5
woozy – would that my 90 year old mom would just be walking down the street in her robe. She “hears” her relatively new neighbors of 2 years who she has never met talking about her. Generally about pleasant things – such as on her birthday they were going to have it announced on a specific radio station, but she is upset as they plan to buy her house and the one on the other side and a open a school for children to learn to be Republicans (why this should bother her, not sure as she is one). Worst of all was when she heard them plotting to kill her and called the police – at 4 am and then told them to call us when they asked who to call (3 daughters – why us? “Well you live the closet, don’t have to go to work in the morning and I figured you would still be awake). That is is the most annoying part – she has total logic – she questions why/how they would know it was birthday so it makes no sense to her, when I asked her if she really thought they were going to kill her “no, but why take a chance”. Using logic – after calling the police she packed up all her good jewelry and took it, her purse and house keys, locked the door, and left the house and started walking (remember at 4 am). Police officer said another few minutes and it would have been a missing person’s case.
Meryl A.
Yeah but you can laugh at it, right?
(Ingredient Label of above comment; Irony, cynicism, trace amounts of frustration, empathy for binding purposes.)
woozy – Not really. She is now in assisted living – it was suppose to be temporary until she realized she could not live alone and then moved to an apartment with aides, but she likes it there – and we have to go and deal with all the stuff in the house, but being around people seems to have cleared her head enough that she no longer hears the voices or music. Luckily for me, daughter number 2 (I am daughter number 1) has it all figured out and is in charge. I have go and clear out my old bedroom – I know about 5 things there I want – and one is to try to donate – but I am sure I will find other stuff to keep. There is a plea to my two sisters in case they come across the table cloth I embroidered while in high school and could not find when I got married.