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Jimbo · 10-17-2012, 03:42 PM

I thought it was pretty clever. I guess because of the reference to German it reminded me of our long, exhausting visit with some neurologists in Philly yesterday. They put my mother in law through a number of different cognitive tests to determine at what stage of Alzheimer's she is currently and check medications, etc. At one point, she was handed a piece of paper and asked to write a short sentence about the weather. She thought for a second, then started writing and handed the paper back to the doctor. My wife said his face went blank for a second then he asked, "Is this in German?" It is, after all, her first language and my wife translated "Today is a nice sunny day". I don't care what anybody else thinks, I think she had a moment of clarity and decided she was going to toy with the good doctor a little.

10-17-2012, 03:42 PM	#7
Jimbo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: S. Yarmouth, MA Posts: 1,604	I thought it was pretty clever. I guess because of the reference to German it reminded me of our long, exhausting visit with some neurologists in Philly yesterday. They put my mother in law through a number of different cognitive tests to determine at what stage of Alzheimer's she is currently and check medications, etc. At one point, she was handed a piece of paper and asked to write a short sentence about the weather. She thought for a second, then started writing and handed the paper back to the doctor. My wife said his face went blank for a second then he asked, "Is this in German?" It is, after all, her first language and my wife translated "Today is a nice sunny day". I don't care what anybody else thinks, I think she had a moment of clarity and decided she was going to toy with the good doctor a little.