Summary

Russo was surprised when his usually prompt mother was still in her nightgown when he arrived at her new apartment to take her to her doctor’s appointment. She asked him what the real time was and seemed terrified at the thought she had missed her doctor’s appointment. Russo encouraged her to get dressed and he called Barbara, telling her that he needed her. This was the first time he had seen his mother so disoriented and confused.

Russo noticed all the clocks in his mother’s apartment were set at different times. He knew they had been set to the correct times the day before. When he went to check on his mother, instead of getting dressed she was sitting on her bed trying to make her the hands on her clock go backward.

Russo remembers how the move had gone...