Jamaica

So today we went and had our hair done and I took her out to lunch to this great 50's diner. She loved all the Elvis stuff and the music. She was smiling and singing a long the entire meal. It was nice to see her happy for a change and it was a great way to start the day. However, it didn't take long for my mother to start asking would I take her to a pay phone so she can call Jamaica for her $250K sweepstakes she 'won'. I counted on the way back from the salon, 12 times she asked me. Since we've been at the house, add another 6, total of 18 times so far today. Now, I figured something like this might come up, so I bought a few scratch tickets (first time in my life!) and had them in my purse for just such occasions. It did work in the car, it diverted her attention off the phone for about 5 minutes. Not as successful as I had hoped. I'm not totally sure how to handle this situation except that I just keep telling her no and change the subject. It's becoming increasingly more and more difficult though, and she's becoming a little angrier each time I tell her no. I wish I had a crystal ball that would tell me how to handle these types of issues with AD patients. Right now, she's content, working on the puzzle and soon we'll go get the boys and she'll be busy with them, so I feel like I made it through the day. Tomorrow, however we leave for a 6 hour drive to go to the beach, and I'm wondering how many times in the car she'll ask. Maybe I should go get some more word searches or scratch tickets or both. Should be an interesting weekend, hopefully she'll forget all about her sweepstakes. I wish those people would just fall off the face of the earth. In my mind there isn't anyone much worse than someone who preys on Alzheimer's patients. What is so bad is that they just are so relentless. They call 24/7 night and day. Her cell phone has been ringing quite a bit but she doesn't answer it when I'm around (which is pretty much always) thank goodness, but this gives me a lot of insight as to what she's doing at home all day. Not so good. The good part is that she can't understand them anymore. I just hear her saying WHAT really loud. Considering she's not sending them anymore money you'd think they'd just get bored and stop calling her.