Subj : Re: Mothers Day
To   : Avon
From : Adept
Date : Mon May 15 2023 15:03:09

 Av> This will likely be my last Mothers Day with my mum alive. I consider
 Av> myself fortunate to have had the chance to connect with her again today
 Av> and indeed to have had such a wonderful, kind and caring mum during my
 Av> lifetime on this Earth.

I'm glad you're getting whatever connection you can, while you can.

Though, as you say, dementia is a rotten disease. You've already lost of a lot of your mom, and surely can't share a variety of things you might used to have shared.

And that's rough.

My condolences, and hopefully the bittersweet mothers' day was as positive as it could be.

In the slightly less depressing, I was able to do my normal weekly call with my mom and brother, that we've been doing since my dad was dying. And we played more minigolf together, which is fun. We tend to explore and see the new courses together, as they're released.

It's kind of odd, as I mostly avoid playing Walkabout (in my case on the Oculus Quest 2) on my own, so as not to have an advantage, or worry about getting bored with the game.

That said, on the less-pleasant aspects, my mom's memory isn't great, so most every game I wind up re-explaining some game mechanic.

But it's still a bit like going minigolfing together, though with weirdly-strict rules (no family rules, like, "if it rolls back to you it doesn't count".).

And then we generally ask trivia questions, after that. Or, rather, I ask everyone else trivia questions because I can use a thing that's published in a newspaper I subscribe to. It's interesting to see what holes in knowledge people have.

E.g., science is a reliable category for me, but other people, outside of my brother, can struggle with things like the order of the planets in the solar system. Which I tend to think of as grade-school knowledge, at least for the major planets.

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