Yesterday I commented on Kate’s putting an 8 x 10 frame, two tops, and underwear in the back seat of our car yesterday. What I didn’t say is that I had washed clothes earlier in the day. I had taken her underwear and placed them on a towel in the kitchen to dry. In addition, I put several of her tops in the dryer. After they were dry, I had put four of them over chairs in our family room and brushed out the wrinkles. I left these things with the intent of putting them up later in the day. Near the time we were to go to dinner, I noticed that the underwear and two of the tops were gone. Two other tops had been thrown over another chair in the family room. The two tops that were missing were the ones Kate took to the car. I assume that the one pair of underwear was part of those I had put out to dry.
This morning as we were getting ready for our trip to Panera I got an umbrella from the trunk of the car. When I did, I noticed a pile of Kate’s underwear piled beside the garbage bin. It was then that I realized that instead of taking the underwear to her room and putting them away, she must have carried all of them out to the car took out one pair to put in the car and threw the others on the floor of the garage. Just one more thing I can’t explain except to say that it is Alzheimer’s at work. This is a devastating disease. It doesn’t play by our rules.
