Elderly folks are a lot like newborns. When they're awake, they can make an awful lot of noise, but when they're asleep, they're generally pretty quiet. I don't know if it's the dementia or the advanced age, but I have noticed the filter which once signaled my mother in law to refrain from making bodily noises in the presence of others is totally gone.
This woman can make the loudest, most disgusting hacking, coughing and spitting noises you have ever heard. I feel like we are living with Bill the Cat from the Bloom County cartoon.
Even worse are the extreme belches. These are no ladylike little burps emitted from a covered mouth, but loud, belly rumbling belches any 10 year old boy would be proud to claim. It doesn't matter where we are or who's around, she just lets them fly. And seldom are they followed by an excuse me. I guess I should be grateful though that they're burps and not the alternative.
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