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.
You’re smart! We form habits, good ones and bad ones.
I head straight to my coffee maker in the morning! I would hate to think about if I couldn’t wake up to my mug of coffee! Okay, two mugs! I can’t stop at only one mug.
I do it because I’m not very smart.
Caregiving has become my whole world.
For the record, last year my Mom fall in her own bedroom and cracked the back of her head open requiring stitches. She was wearing her LL Bean loafer-style slippers. She attempted to turn around but I guess the slippers have a sole that gripped the carpet a little too well. Just saying that many types of shoes are out to get us.
I'll never wear those shoes in Target again! Geaton u reminded me of something. Several years ago my late father's sandals got caught on a throw rug& he flew head 1st into a door frame. Split his head wide open, needed 18 staples. I was very glad he didn't have any internal brain injuries. I tossed the rug & his sandals in the garbage. I come from a not so graceful family. Lol
Ouch! Sorry about your tumble.
There are so many people on the forum with so much knowledge and wisdom. I wonder if you put all that into ONE person, what would that caregiver look like?
Would it be a caregiver who continues to sacrifice themself, but who finds ways to make it less painful? A sort of band-aid approach.
Would it be a caregiver who completely stops sacrificing themself, and has as a condition that any solution must be a solution that doesn’t in any way sacrifice themself? To be as little involved as possible.
That’s terrific! My grandfather had a truck and a Caddy as well. My brother and I loved riding around with him. We did get in trouble for playing with his push button windows. We had the roll down windows in my dad’s car. So, push buttons were new and fun for us. LOL 😆
Enjoy tooling around in your luxury sports car. How fun!
I just saw on the news that just across the Louisiana line, there is a grass fire that broke out near the interstate in Mississippi. They closed the interstate in both directions.
(Just kidding. I just wanted to see what it feels like to type that).
Anywayyyyyyyy, Beatty, here’s some more humor, similar to the previous one:
“A thousand-mile journey starts with one step. Then again, so does falling in a ditch and breaking your neck.”
I may not be knocked fully down but low & inactive - Imagined myself a round stone on the beach as I refused to get up on time today. Just laying there peacefully, imaging the wind sweeping over me & the sound of the waves.
On a positive note:
I solved my mom’s HUGE problem some days ago. Someone in health“care” had (in a mean way) messed up her care.
Solving this, also immediately lifted my writer’s block. I was working on a report, nothing difficult, but had writer’s block. I didn’t realize my writer’s block was connected to the stress of helping my mom.
On a negative note:
There must be all sorts of other unknown effects on me from the stress. I keep saying this, but I’ll really try to take better care of MY health. But the only way for me to do that, is to take a break from my mom’s problems. I’ll do that.
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life. But so was yesterday, and look how that turned out.”
“When life knocks you down, stay there and take a nap.”
But my life’s a joke right now. In case anyone wants to laugh. 🥺
(Ventingisback)
“How's the teeth filing going?”
Very sharp.
”They'll get what's coming to them one way or another.”
So glad you agree.