Patient 1: “Are your dancing shoes going to paint the town yellow?”
Patient 2: “Where are you going to get the paint?”
Patient 3: “From you shiny soles.”
Alzheimer’s Conversations
Stamped in Triplicate
Nurse: “It’s going to be a beautiful day.”
Patient: “Did you send it in triplicate, stamped good day?”
Dilating
Nurse: “How are you today?”
Patient: “Well, you know, I’m dilating.”
Lost at Sea
Patient: “I’m really dreading this.”
Nurse: “What are you dreading?”
Patient: “The ship and the sea.”
Nurse: “Are you lost at sea?”
Patient: “My flippers are lost but you keep finding me and giving me pills.”
LIzards
Patient: “What’s going to happen to us this morning?”
Nurse: “We’re all going to turn into giant lizards.”
Patient: “That’s a shame after all that water we swam across.”
Nurse: “Don’t worry, lizards swim.”
Taxes
Patient: “Hey, how long do I have on these income taxes?”
Nurse: “You have until April 15th.”
Patient: “Good, I can take a nap then.”
Where to Go
Nurse: “Where are you going?”
Patient: “I’m going to January, all the way.”
Butterflies and Mud
Patient: “They get scared, don’t they?”
Nurse: “How can we make them not scared?”
Patient: “Butterflies and mud.”
Retempsess
Nurse: “If you go to the dining room we have breakfast ready.”
Patient: “Is it the best recomendest retempsess?”
Witnesses
Patient: “Where’s our witness?”
Nurse: “I don’t know about any witnesses.”
Patient: “Someone’s gotta see you do this shit.”
Game of Now
Patient: “Games are fun!”
Nurse: “What game do you want to play?”
Patient: “We’ll play the ‘In the Zone of Now’ where tomorrow is where lessons are learned.”
Robert Redford
Nurse: “That’s Robert Redford on TV.”
Patient: “Can he have breakfast?”
Nurse: “I’d love to have breakfast with Robert Redford.”
Patient: “Only if he cuts that shit off his head.”
Nurse: “I kind of like his hair.”
Patient: “You’re the reason he doesn’t make movies any more.”
Moon Temperature
“I don’t want your moon temperature water!”
Conversations with Jesus
Patient having conversation with herself:
“Jesus, are you here?”
“No. I’m not where you are.”
“Jesus, did you sneeze?”
“No, I’m on the train with Melinda.”
“Mama Mia, I’m going to fall into your nose.”
Rabies Bed
Patient: “What did you do with my rabies bed?”
Nurse: “Your bed has rabies?”
Patient: “It will when I get through with it.”
Good Dreams
Nurse: “Did you have good dreams?”
Patient: “Just another pillow on the highway.”
Lost Exhaust
Nurse: “You couldn’t find your room?”
Patient: “Well, she’s walking on the exhaust system.”
Idiot Salute
Nurse: “Ok, I have your pills and your water.”
Patient: “And your idiot salute.”
Fishy Face
Nurse: “Look at that fish. He sure has a funny face.”
Patient: “I don’t know how he got in there.”
Nurse: “I think he swam in.”
Patient: “And they forgot the bing, bing, bing, in the cloud sky.”
Blue Alamo
Patient 1: “How are you feeling?”
Patient 2: “How do I fail?”
Patient 1: “You look very nice.”
Patient 2: “I fell in a blue alamo.”