I think that's cute! Made me smile.. of course, I'm reading this in my office on an Alzheimer's unit in a nursing home!

cute

Seriously, people worrying (READ: bitching) about "appropriateness" miss the point entirely. Yes, it's incredibly sad and affecting when a loved one slowly loses their mind. But if it were me, I'd much prefer finding the funny side than moping around depressing everyone around. Do you think that sick people prefer being around somber, humorless automatons all the time? Lighten up, it helps. At least it did me when my grandparents died.

oooh... ooh

Uh, of course you need to find the funny side in things they say, and not take what they say seriously. It's the only way to cope sometimes, but to tell strangers online about it on a site like this and act like it's an FML? No. I don't think so.

Yikes! I can def feel your pain. My uncle also has Alzheimers and told me I'm a "sexy little thing"; horrible experience.

eeeew......

Who cares where he shares it? We have no idea who they are, where they live, or in what facility the great grandmother currently resides. In fact, it might make it easier for him to laugh about it here rather than risk some uptight relative giving him shit about it. I doubt he meant _actually_ **** his life, but so what if he did?

Who cares? There are several people here who have voiced that they care, that they don't think this is an FML, and that they think it's disgusting that this person considered it an FML. I've even gone as far as to say why; that it's disrespectful to post such a thing on a site like this. It doesn't matter if it's anonymous, like I already said, that's besides the point. The fact is that they're saying their disabled great grandparent who doesn't even realise what ahe was saying, came on to them... and then getting a bunch of people online, not familiar with the situation whatsoever, laughing about it. It just isn't what's done. If it was, this place would be filled with Alzheimer's stories, and every other type of mental disability story - there's limitless amounts of them. It's a disease, and it shouldn't be posted for the amusement of people on a site like this. Like someone else said, "it's no more funny than poking fun at a dying kid with cancer." We're obviously not going to see eye to eye on this, I'm just repeating myself, so I'm done here.

Do you possibly resemble your great-grandpa?