This first happened last week and I didn’t think anything of it.

Jim had turned on the television to see if there was any football games. It was Saturday and they usually replayed games from earlier this season, or from seasons past.  When I came into the room, I realized he was watching the Football Update channel and not an actual game. I just asked him if he wanted to watch a game instead of the updates and while he said there was a game already on. I’d been listening and knew it wasn’t, so I switched to the proper channel and went on my way.

This week it was Sunday when he turned on the TV to the update channel. Sundays are back to back live games, not replays. I listened for a while as I read in the other room and realized he was still on the same update channel. I offered to change it to a game and he said he was watching one. This time I left him alone instead of correcting him.

He spent all day watching updates and never once realized, or at least commented out loud, that he couldn’t find a game. Not once did he take the remote and attempt to change the channel.

A month ago he would have been frustrated and asking me to find him a game instead of watching people talking about the games.

A little further down the Dementia slope we slide.