Elderly parents or relatives to care for and/or worry about? This is the place for you.
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Feb 2019
3:05pm, 16 Feb 2019
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LazyDaisy
Good news (Chris' mum) but less so re Chris' MiL and Carp's MiL. I suppose the nature of this thread is that a good two thirds - at least - of the posts are likely to be on the sadder side of the balance. It makes the cheering posts all the more welcome though 
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Feb 2019
10:03am, 18 Feb 2019
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Mandymoo
Rant alert - I know I said I have to be patient, bite my tongue and take into account mums situation, but jez she upset me and was vile yesterday. This morning she is all sweetness and light - so blooming hard isnt it?
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Feb 2019
10:03am, 18 Feb 2019
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Mandymoo
Rant alert - I know I said I have to be patient, bite my tongue and take into account mums situation, but jez she upset me and was vile yesterday. This morning she is all sweetness and light - so blooming hard isnt it?
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Feb 2019
10:51am, 18 Feb 2019
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LazyDaisy
Mandy, I know just what that's like. Hang on in there xxx
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Feb 2019
12:05pm, 18 Feb 2019
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LindsD
Me too. It's so hard. (())
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Feb 2019
2:15pm, 18 Feb 2019
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Lip Gloss
Yip MM, I can vouch for that....spoke to my dad just now and he is all sweetness and light, don't know if that's cause the carer was still there and ready to give him lunch or if he had totally forgotten how we left the visit. Still doesn't make me want to visit again any time soon.
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Feb 2019
2:15pm, 18 Feb 2019
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Lip Gloss
( except for the Fetch meets you can have on the way there )
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Feb 2019
3:26pm, 18 Feb 2019
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LazyDaisy
LG I've just got back from seeing my mum. She was in her ensuite when I arrived. She was in there for ages and I kept asking if she was alright and she said she was but it went on so long (and, TMI alert, the smell was awful) that I opened the door to check on her. She was in a real state and was trying, wholly ineffectually, to clean herself up Luckily at that moment one of the carers turned up - apparently this is the third time today The lovely carer sorted her out while I hunted down the source of a further smell - Mum's been stashing her wet incontinence pads in her nightstand cupboard She's also mislaid her new glasses I don't know what the cause of the squits is, but I can see from everything else that moving rooms has really confused her again. And I expect she'll have just about settled when it'll be time to go back to her old room. I still want her to go back though as this new room is much gloomier and just not as 'homely'. Poor Mum. Though she did make me laugh - she's going to look for a 'little job' to give her something to do. I said I doubted if anyone would employ someone three weeks off her 96th birthday but she pooh-poohed ( ) that objection
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Feb 2019
3:32pm, 18 Feb 2019
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Carpathius
Your poor Mum Daisy re the stashing, that was a big part of the reason we ended up moving MiL. Went to see her yesterday and she had a stomach upset, which was literally the only topic of conversation she wanted to have. She has IBS and this isn't unusual but she was insisting she was bleeding. The sister had checked her and said she definitely wasn't and didn't even have diarrhoea which was good, but I don't know why she was so insistent that she did. |
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Feb 2019
4:44pm, 18 Feb 2019
32,940 posts
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Lip Gloss
Oh your poor mum LD and like you say the moving rooms will only be a nightmare again. Carp just as well someone can tell you what is really happening. |
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