"That's not meat... that's fish!"

...OK... bizarre title right?... I can explain...

I've got a slow cooker on my kitchen work surface... and it's on... and there's meat in it... pork to be exact. With a sauce mix, and because it's pork... a couple of sliced up cooking apples... (ommm nommm nommm!) 

But it's been cooking away nicely since 9:30 this morning... so it was time to see if things were cooked enough... or if it needed to stay on a little while longer... So Adriana took a fork and speared a bit... My reaction to what came up on the fork... "That's not meat...that's fish!" 

So now you're feeling rather puzzled, maybe scratching your head... or maybe you know me off the internet... and are thinking "yup... she's flipped!"... Or maybe if you're in the third category you know me well enough to know that I have a weird speech difficulty that means that sometimes what my brain wants me to say... (in this case "apple") isn't what comes out of my mouth... (in this case I said "fish"... cue really bad joke: what do you call a fish with no eyes?  Fsh. BOOOOM BOOOM! a la Basil Brush) And yes... most people say that they have that issue too... and they don't have a cognitive/neurological disorder... But... when you HAVE a cognitive/neurological disorder things like this happen more often (sometimes a LOT more often) than if you simply are having a "run of the mill" bad day. 

I am even putting together my own "dictionary of ellie-ese" (although anyone else's unusual terms are welcome in it too :D) partly because I figure it will be a help to carers to understand what I am on about when I ask for "purple people eater" for breakfast (that's ellie-ese for porridge... and I'm as lost as you as to WHY)... partly because it's actually quite fun looking over some of the unique phrases we have for things :D 

At the end of the day... even if I have to resort to mime/a lot of pointing/describing a word that isn't coming out right/just going to where something is and bringing it to a carer... I can usually get across what I need to communicate... and that is the important thing :D