This just flat out sucks

[Warpy]

39. I hope you have a turntable so you can play those old Beatles albums often

and she can sing along with them. The time will come when even that is gone. Musical memory (along with words) is stored in a different area from speech and is one of the places speech therapists start with stroke patients. Unfortunately, your Mom isn't a stroke patient and it won't work for her.

This is the toughest time for her, she can remember being functional and she's aware it's all slipping away. The toughest part for you will be when she no longer knows who you are and you're scaring her when you want to give her a hug or kiss.

As for having her pee in a cup for the doctors, those days are over. To avoid having a stranger shove a catheter into her to get a sample, you can order test strips at Amazon. Just use a wet wipe before she pees and pass the strip through the urine stream. It's not ideal, but it will work for things like nitrates, which indicate a possible UTI. If it's positive, then you can justify taking her in for a mini cath sample, something they'll do before prescribing antibiotics.

Yeah, Amazon sells everything. https://www.amazon.com/Urine-Infection-Test-Strips-Leukocytes/dp/B01EHZMXQC