" YOU'RE MY FAVORITE RIDE "!!

MIKE IS ALL FULL OF COMPLIMENTS LATELY.  WHERE WAS THIS MAN 35 YEARS AGO WHEN I WOULD HAVE STOOD ON MY HEAD FOR A KIND WORD??  HE HAS BECOME SO SWEET AND SO THOUGHTFUL THAT IT IS HARD FOR ME TO BELIEVE AT TIMES THAT HE EVEN HAS ALZHEIMER'S.  THEN REALITY SETS IN.  LAST NIGHT WE WENT OUT TO EAT WITH MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER FONDA AND HER HUSBAND ART-THEIR TREAT!   MIKE WAS MOSTLY QUIET DURING THE MEAL EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE OUTBURST WHEN THE WAITRESS TRIED TO TAKE AWAY THE BLOOMING ONION BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED IT.  ALSO WHEN HE WAS READY TO GO ( THE WAITRESS WAS TAKING A LONG TIME TO GIVE US THE CHECK AND GET PAID) HE JUST SAID IN A PRETTY LOUD VOICE "LET ME OUT OF HERE".  NEXT WHEN WE GOT HOME, OUR OTHER SON IN LAW MIKE AND OUR GRAND SON CANYON CAME OVER TO PLAY SOME PHASE 10.  I THINK IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THEY BOTH COULD REALLY SEE HOW BAD MIKE GETS AT NIGHT.  HE KEPT ASKING THE SAME QUESTIONS OVER AND OVER, AND KEPT TRYING TO DO THE SAME (WRONG) THINGS OVER AND OVER.  HE IS VERY EASILY CONFUSED AT NIGHT, AND HAD A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING  ALMOST ANYTHING NO MATTER HOW SIMPLE IT MAY SEEM TO US.  HOWEVER , WHEN WE WENT TO BED, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD A GOOD DAY.   HE SAID "YES, DID YOU"?  ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, I AM TRULY HAPPY THAT HE IS STILL ABLE TO ENJOY LIFE AND NOT BE UPSET OVER THE THINGS HE CAN NO LONGER DO OR DO WELL.  I WONDER IF I WOULD BE THAT GRACIOUS UNDER THE SAME SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES..  SOMETHING TO PONDER!!  TILL TOMORROW-JUST ME