As I have mentioned before, Mac often gets the gender of people mixed up... in fact most of the time he thinks the preposees are male rather than female. Possibly because many of the preposees wear their hair pulled back in pony tail or a braid..but then again, I've heard him say that about someone with long hair, so really I'm not sure - in any case tonight when I was trying to watch "The Big Bang' on a dvd...he kept interrupting...saying - where do I go to bed...Where is that guy...so i decided that's it...no show for me.. I haven't watched any t.v. in weeks, and although i've watched about 4 episodes of The Big Bang on dvd...that's the limit, as he does not have any interest...I try to get him to at least watch the news..but no way...so short youtube videos about animals, and sometimes on the national Geographic channel, although last episode was about a month ago - Birds..he usesd to be so keen..but not that night.
So, when I turned off "TheBig Bang.." he referred again to the guy...and said 'hey that guy was talking to me and you were not letting him talk to ME// Then i realized he meant the preposee - it was true, Stephanie our preposee at night, was telling me that she intends to go back to school. We then started to discuss what courses she would take...while i was giving her his p.j.s and she was preparing him for bed...so her chat with him tonight was really brief..His brow was all furrowed and he was really angry..I felt so bad as it is really the second time he pointed something of this nature in two days...
Yesterday Les, took us out for lunch at the St. James Club..and although Mac sat between us - and we did talk to him about the food, what choices etc...we tended to just natter away to each other assuming mac was listening. but sad to say, he turned to us and said, You know, all that time you were talking, i didn't understand anything..."this when we were just about leaving... Well he also has poor hearing, and both les and I have low voices so that was another problem...so we both tried to be more accomodating to mac..But in a way this is so sad, but in another way it's good, as he is asserting himself rather than just tuning out. Sometimes, in the past when i have tried to include him, he says, it's o.k. I'm not interested, or he tunes out and doesn't respond...then again there is the other point he does like my complete attention...and even as I'm typing this, I am aware that at any moment, he will come out of the bedroom and say, where is Janet..or what's happening.
We had an old friend Dorothy, join us at lunch today, and perhaps we didn't pay too much attention to him, although, she pointed out various things to him regarding when we used to live near each other in Chateauguay but he really didn't respond..although he seemed happy enough . She also said to him at least 4 or 5 times..that he always says before a meal that he is not hungry then he eats every last morsel on his plate...which is so true, but he just ignored that; thankfully, as i don't want him to stop eating, that's for sure.
Going out for a walk after she left...he was a happy camper. waving to all as we left and again when he returned so i guess he just needs more attention...have to check that out and make sure I don't take the time he has with his favorite preposee away...it must be hard enough not knowing who is who and if the person is a man or a woman, so tomorrow he will have a surprise as she is his preposee in the morning which is rare...i'll stay away and let him enjoy... so now it's g'nite.
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