Only the Shadow Knows....

Mom and my sister Holly went to visit Dad yesterday.  They found him snoozing my the nurses station in his wheel chair.  They wheeled him out to the front patio of the nursing home and found some shade....

Dad kept his "bad eye" closed the entire visit...my sister suspected he would not allow the staff to hydrate it.

Dad was acting very odd and kept doing his evil laugh...it sounds like the laugh he used to do when he would imitate The Shadow from the old radio program days...one of his favorites...and he used to say, "Only the Shadow Knows"....and then let out with an evil laugh....

His favorite topics of conversation were sex and my sister's forehead.

He told them there was a whale spouting blood and they made him a steak from it for his breakfast...and blasted his evil laughter over them...

He had a nice neat hair cut and seemed happy...just very odd.  If they stopped talking or asking Dad questions for any reason, Dad closed his other eye and dozed off...

They called me to talk to Dad to see if they could divert his weirdness....He did sound odd...."Hellll-llllooooooooo Donnnnnnnnn-nnnnnnnnnaaaaaa (evil laugh)"

I ignored it and greeted him happily with my usual, Papa Doots....

He did more evil laughter and told me he was looking at this beautiful women....more evil laughter....

I asked if Mom and Holl Doll were visiting him....

Oh yes, and she is so beautiful I want to kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss her....(very loud evil laughter)

There were a few more exchanges but Dad was really off his beam and obviously feeling extremely frisky and inappropriate...

Before I could say good bye, my sister took the phone away from him ....then there was silence but I could see I was still connected to Holly's cell phone so I waited...

Pretty soon Holly came on the line and said Dad had pushed the mute button.  She told me I was being a good sport but she had to put a stop to it....

They wheeled him inside to the front lobby and Holly took a four minute video of Dad babbling...but the self piano was playing so it drowned out what Dad was saying.... She took the picture above of Dad and Mom.

Mom and Holly decided it was time for Dad to get ready for lunch, so they wheeled him into the lunchroom and got him situated at a table.  Doctor-Doctor brought Mom and Holly some coffee and Dad's delicious looking lunch of BBQ chicken, beans, corn, peaches, whole wheat bread, milk, juice and coffee.  Dad ate well.

He laughed and smiled and seemed very happy.  They said their good byes and left him to be prepared for his afternoon nap...