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.
years ago ALZ was never mentioned. I knew the patients I cared for in geriatric wards usually became what we called "senile" and we kept our distance from those likety to be violent and watched outselves with the old men with wandering hands. Depends had not been invented so we changed a lot of bed linens which we were required to rinse off before sending them out to the laundry. A few I definitely remember. the old man who kept his cane on his lap and one morning picked up his cup of early morning tea to throw at me. luckily he was the first one served and it spilled on his hand and burnt.. Another one when you rolled him over one of his hand would try and find it's way up your skirt. A quick slap soon stopped that and he just laughed. One 85 year old who had what we used to call in the stallion a fifth leg. I threw a pillow and he laughed and told me he hadn't had a woman in five years. Then dear little Alfie who showed me lille rolled up balls of poop he had found in his bed. I just put my arm around him and said 'malteezers got in your bed again Alfie" CM and Kaz will know what malteezers are. Of course they were all demented but that was not something recognised in those far off days
Mom's been in a "You're going to kill me" or "They're going to kill" me mode all day.
I was mopping up her crumbs in the kitchen. Put the mop into the bucket and she said with a very straight face "You're going to hit me with it"!! Oh mother of all that is good in life... ARGH! I might hit myself with it.
Ted was ridiculously funny!!
Cap.... uhm, yeah ok. YUCK! TMI
Now I'm rethinking it. We don't have a lot of valuables in the house but what I have I'd like to keep...and most def want to make sure no one is abusing mom in any form. Thank you ladeeM. I totally get the other side of it as well. Hmmmm...
Mom turned 79 in May. Diagnosed 6 years ago with AD. Stage 6. She's becoming very feeble as well. Almost depends time.Yes it drives me nuts but she can't help it. Least I think she can't, at times I think she does it on purpose!!
Her eyesight is great but her perception is shot to h*ll.