My Life is on Repeat

Watching my grandmother's alzheimer's progress is hard and it is something I do daily.  The new thing this week is I am now actually having to repeat about everything.  She can't keep up with our daily tasks.  Unlike some people my daily activities are not the same.  I change my plans and can go or do something on a whim and my poor grandmother can not keep up.  So I am trying to wake up in the morning and tell her all the things I plan on doing each day.  The problem is, she can't remember. 

For example, I make plans to go to my parent's house for dinner.  All day long I plan on this and I mention it to her in general conversation, "now don't forget we are going to dinner and my parent's house tonight" and she agrees.  Then, the boys and I start getting ready and I get the car loaded and she is still sitting there in her chair.  I ask her if she needs to get ready to go and she has no idea where we are going.  She responds with "you should tell me what your plans are earlier instead of right when you are ready to walk out the door."  For awhile I would just agree with her, but this week I started telling her the truth, that I have been telling her all day.

The other thing she is having problems with is she likes to know where I am going and everyone else in my family.  She asks if my mother is working today, if my nephew is in school today, etc.  And she asks me over and over again.  This morning my mother dropped off my neice for me to babysit today because my sister left early this morning to attend a business conference a few hours away.  We began talking about this plan yesterday and my sister and I solidified the details.  My grandmother was all questions trying to figure out our plans, and help us things out.  Then, this morning, my neice shows up here at the house on time and as planned and my grandmother acts as if she never heard a thing about me babysitting.  So, again this morning I go over everything I had planned today.  Over and over it again knowing she will not remember.