Name Game

Margaret told me yesterday that she noticed that Mother calls Jenna by her name. She doesn't do this for anyone else in her life, now that Glen is gone. She calls Dennis "Glen", and once in a while she will use my name correctly to a caregiver, but she doesn't use my name, ever, to me.  

Somehow, Jenna's presence in her life has been longstanding enough so that Mother remembers her by name.

Mother asks the caregiver who I am almost everyday. She always looks baffled when they say "That's your daughter Anne." However, when Joy was over the other day, Mother pointed to her and told Margaret "That's Anne."