Me: Good Morning Mom
Mom: Can you smell me?
Me: (Hesitating. How do I reply to such a question?) No, why?
Mom: I got sprayed by a skunk. Can’t you smell it?
Me: Maybe it was a skunk that doesn’t smell very bad.
Mom: Don’t touch me. You will get skunk stink on you.
Me: It’s ok, I can wash it off. I will help you get to your chair.
Mom: I will get the stink on the chair.
Me: I will wash the blanket that is covering it.
Mom: Ok. (Helped her get to her chair.)
Me: I will get you some breakfast.
Mom: Thanks, but shut the bedroom door so the skunk stink won’t get in the rest of the house.
Me: Ok, I will be right back. Fortunately, when I returned the skunk and the smell were all gone.
What the Hell! What kind of a sick hallucination has an old lady sprayed with a skunk?
Note: Hallucinations can be a result of dementia, kidney failure or certain drugs or a combination of drugs prescribed to help certain conditions. I have learned to discuss what Mom thinks is happening as though real because regardless of what logical explaination I have she either gets more confused or agitated. In her world what she thinks is happening is very real.
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