Ever just want to tear your hair out, or someone else's? If you cannot restore a sense of balance, you will run away from home? Just want to say some things without the constraints of staying on topic? Well, this thread is for you! If you just need a short break to let it all hang out, be a brat, then come on, you can do it. No holding back! Go for it, you can do it.
2. Fill mums bag with something in fact anything which prevents her throwing soiled pads in amongst her handkerchiefs - yuk yuk
3.Take the bloody clock and throw it away - or buy one that says the time every five minutes
4. Hire a helper and tell Mum its a friend so she thinks she isn't paying for it
5. Tell Mum Heinz have brought out a new roast dinner soup when you offer her smoothie roast dinners you have turned into soup
6. Replace the door bell for a light in my room so I don't have to introduce everyone to my Mum
7. Widen the already over width doors to about 8 feet wide so mum doesn't crash into them when going 8 steps from chair to toilet
8.Tell Mum Church has closed down for lack of attendance so she doesn't witter when she is unwell
9. Exchange mums pills for sweeties when she demands painkillers all the time - oddly enough the sweets seem to be more effective!
10. Write deceased on begging letters and put em back in the post without a stamp
You did bloody well Veronica I had to think a lot - something I find very difficult!!!!
It's 3:00 am r u up?
I shouldN't read this when I'm punchy - I about fell out of my chair reading thankless' tale
My mom has decided that the only way for her to stay safe at her memory care center is to be scary so when a man approaches her that she doesn't like she'll say get away from me bringing a couple of men to tears
So tonight she announces she's not going to stay in this place and frankly I can't blame her - I'm trying to walk her down her hall since her caregiver is late and there's a new man outside her door in his boxers eating a cactus plant - decisions decisions - do I let someone know or do I say Bon appetite ?
So in her room we go and since we're still waiting for lab results to see if she has a UTI I suggest we try to wash down below - didn't go over well - she's had it with me and I'm not in charge of her and it's her body and yada yada yada.
When her overnight caregiver does show up she says to her thank god your here I can't stand that one referring to me - i usually leave some lifesavers and peppermint candy in her purse when I leave so tonight I decided to leave a different treat instead 🌵
8/25/2016
I also swore to myself that the day after she died I would have the county's biggest ever bonfire, mainly of photos of penguins. I have at least got rid of most of the bloody penguins, but here we are 16 months on and I'm still painstakingly going through boxes.
this time.
It is not your fault, it is not Countrymouse's fault, because you did not know.
Let's go back to behaving badly on purpose, all of us.
Love, from Send
Brat awards
1. Install second steering wheel in the car so Mom thinks she is still driving
2. Get grandpa a duplicate set of car keys that don't work,
3. Install digital lock on outside doors and don't tell anyone the combination.
4. Buy several identical sets of clothing for your loved one who insists on wearing the same thing every day
5. Fill an empty ice-cream container with a vegetable smoothie for your ice cream diabetic addict.
6. Make a recording of your voice full of Uha's, Really and Gotta go Mom see you soon for the frequent caller from Memory Care.
7. Put a set of bells on Mom's walker.
8. Put fake Money in Dad's wallet
9. Swap Mom's credit cards for ones that have expired.
10. Put fake pills in prescription bottles so you can give the correct dosage of the real ones.
There I made it to ten.
No there is one more
Print up fake checks to send donations to fake charities
1. Remove 'dinger' from bell after Mum rang it 14 times last night
2. Fill mums bag with something in fact anything which prevents her throwing soiled pads in amongst her handkerchiefs - yuk yuk
3.Take the bloody clock and throw it away - or buy one that says the time every five minutes
4. Hire a helper and tell Mum its a friend so she thinks she isn't paying for it
5. Tell Mum Heinz have brought out a new roast dinner soup when you offer her smoothie roast dinners you have turned into soup
6. Replace the door bell for a light in my room so I don't have to introduce everyone to my Mum
7. Widen the already over width doors to about 8 feet wide so mum doesn't crash into them when going 8 steps from chair to toilet
8.Tell Mum Church has closed down for lack of attendance so she doesn't witter when she is unwell
9. Exchange mums pills for sweeties when she demands painkillers all the time - oddly enough the sweets seem to be more effective!
10. Write deceased on begging letters and put em back in the post without a stamp
You did bloody well Veronica I had to think a lot - something I find very difficult!!!!
I'm going to put Hubby's dirty underwear on top of his pillow.
My sis calls on the phone and will start a narrative about her day that can run from 30 minutes to an hour, I am only required to grunt occasionally, god forbid I should interrupt the flow with a real comment. Back when I was at mom's her main phone had a cord and it was torture!! I'm so grateful for my cordless speakerphone, last week I went to the bathroom and had a shower while she blathered on... is that bratty??
I put my hubs dirty underwear in the hamper so he will be sure to wash them.
(After I ask him to do his own laundry-if he is not on another break, that is).
The pee pad was clean...I just pretended it was dirty.
They changed the name of the hostpital anyway so they probably got rid of those supplies.I'm SURE we paid for them in the end somehow.
Missed your post to Lucky a page back. When going to the motel at the beach we had to wait for clean towels. There were even instructions to keep the same sheets during a short stay due to the drought in California. Being a brat, the sheets were changed daily because my legs were being bitten. Also the floor was requested to be vacumed and sprayed, which helped. They tried, after all the beach has sand fleas, and they allowed dogs, not four stars at all.
She's still very agitated and was giving her personal caregiver a bad time at dinner refusing to eat because I was taking her out to dinner so I speak to her on the phone and settle her down promising To be there tonight after work and will bring a pie
despite several late nights at the office this week I rally and go buy pie - being Saturday night traffic is heavy and someone cuts me off - I slam on the brakes and my beautiful lemon meringue pie flies off the seat upside down on the floor -swell
I always Hold my breath when I arrive since I never know what the scene will be - thankfully it was not too bad - just mom and the three men she fears the most still up - someone took the remote to the tv so they can't even watch a movie
She's thrilled to see me and even more thrilled to see the pie box so I do my best to put the meringue back on top of the pie and pass it out to her and the 'boys' - after all it's not like it fell on the pavement 😝
It was funny to me that you were a brat and still served the lemon merangue pie in pieces after it had fallen. I would have eaten it in any condition, eben as a smoothy, because I love that pie, which my Mom carefully made as we were growing-the three siblings all totalled.