I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Not sure why I'm even bothering since you step outside and every single tree is gorgeous with all their pink, white and yellow blooms... aaaccchhhhooooo
My big girl has had a pretty decent day today... I think be a skosh more efficient when I change her is helping. Grief..
57twin, can't you just breathe in the salty steam?
Front loading washers are great for people tgat wash kleenex as they do not shred
Oh good grief looloo, can't you just accidently destroy it and hope she forgets she ever owned a phone? Cell phones and car keys are the first to go for elderly dementia loved ones, or us carer's will lose OUR minds!
haha on the answering machine. I used to "Talk back" to whomever it was leaving me a message. Eample; Ms. B, your bill is past due a payment is needed immediately. me, "Oh shut up!, don't you think I already know this"?!! Things seem to have been simpler back then when we didn't have all this helpful technology.
Mom seems to be getting depressed? She takes an anti-depressant but I have noticed the change in her. She is definitely sleep a lot more... but now when she's awake, she lays with her hands folded, eyes open and just looks. No emotions, just going through motions. She had zero appetite yesterday but did ok today. I tried to engage her in some fun stuff but she wasn't having it at all. Sigh. Every single day is a different adventure with AD. Nothing stays the same for very long, that's for sure.
I'm still battling this head cold/allergies. Nothing is helping ease it. I even stuck my head over the tea pot trying to steam it away. Bleh. The mornings are the worst when I feel like I'm gonna cough up both lungs, and since I'm coughing so hard I get dizzy... my equilibrium is gone!!
8:05 P.M. and I want to go to bed!!
I took care of it, but she'll be getting a slightly different phone. Her old one is so ancient I had to get the equivalent version, which now has a a camera. This could be another interesting week. (Eye roll).
My 89 year old Aunt keeps calling here long distance and shouting at the answering machine when I step out...does not understand it is an answering machine,though I tell her that all the time.
Oh good grief, trying to find those sheets of paper was next to impossible. Their living room and Dad's office looked like a confetti bomb had gone off :P I mentioned to Dad to just throw out all the old newspapers because it is just old news now, and start from scratch. Dad is afraid he might miss a very important article.... [where is my helmet?]
It took Mom, who is legally blind, to find the sheets I was looking for, in one of a dozen piles of paper that Dad had. Boy was she grumbling about the mess.
Dad will look at a newspaper article he had cut out from the 1960's.... read it... talk about it... and put it back in the stack to do an instant replay at a later date... [sigh]
on a related note i repaired my drippy shower faucets yesterday . i only had to flip the neoprene seals to a fresh side to get them working like new again . a new low in cheapass - ery ..
i still havent replumbed the renters stool , shower or washing machine . when she gets tired of filling her toilet with a bucket of water she can pay me the 140 bucks ive already spent fixing her foolishness . i cut firewood all last year for ten bucks an hour and i strongly resent 14 hours of hard labor wasted on the behalf of someone whos ignorant enough to leave the house for 3 subzero days and bust every pipe in it .
like twizards complaint . fried her brain on booze and drugs and shammed out on disability .
im not a particularily mean person but if you dont teach dullards hard lessons they will drag you down with them .
my friend betsy is bout another real winner . shes in a panic over losing her child support ( for a 21 and 24 yr old kids ) and her overtime being cut simultaniously . i try to make a point to her that there are things you can live without such as i havent bought milk in nearly 2 years . its something i can live just fine without . as always she missed my point entirely and offered me a half gallon of milk instead . " joey wont drink outdated milk , joey wont eat leftovers , etc " .
man , what do you do with people who stumble from one catastrophe to the next ?
if i get hungry i plan to eat joey . thats how outside the box i think ..
I must remind my dads AL to call my cell phone instead of home # as he was very confused working towards a mini melt down. Resident nicknamed Dori passed away Monday her funeral service this evening. Mom's name was Dolores and the staff were talking about attending her funeral service so he thought they were talking about mom that she is dead and he cannot go to her funeral. Grrrr.........
Anyhow they left a message at home which I just saw now. I did stop today for Happy hour a little later than usual and dad was in living room. Turns out happy hour cut short so staff could attend funeral. Dad was quiet but I got him talking more and the earlier episode was not brought up by him. WHEW!
FF overscented things and people are a bugbear of mine too. I've just bought three big bottles of alcohol hand gel and feel a fool - it's heady stuff and it'll take me weeks to get through it. What was I thinking, getting it without smelling it first? Yeuch. I'm trying to work up the courage to speak to our care agencies about perfume wearing, too. The thing is, these lovely ladies are helping mother to eat and drink, and many of them are pretty heavy users. I know they have to deal with some difficult pongs on an average working day, and I'm sure I'd want some protection if I were doing their jobs too, but not here they don't and strong fragrances are going to wipe out anything that's left of my mother's fragile appetite. Plus I resent being able to smell their perfume hours after they've left the house. How do I nicely ask them to adopt a more minimalist approach to personal hygiene???