Caregiving Mistakes/Regrets
Aug 19, 2019
Episode #91
Show Notes
In your caregiving a lot of times you do things in the heat
of the moment. After time goes by you wonder whether or not what
you did was
the right thing to do.
A lot of caregivers won’t tell you everything that they go
through in their caregiving. I am one of those people who won’t
tell you every
little thing that goes on in in the house with the caregiving I am
one that
won’t tell you what Mama has done to us I won’t tell you what we’ve
done to
Mama.
What I tried to do in this podcast is tell you what we do
and
what we don’t do because of dementia. When we first started
caregiving we
didn’t know what we were doing at all.
I’ve gone out to Facebook to the caregiving support groups
and I have found that a lot of posts in those groups are things
that we have
had questions about in our caregiving. So I try to take this
podcast and tell
you what we have done in that situation and what we haven’t been in
that
situation All to try to help you in your caregiving.
I am also taking some courses in podcasting through the
school of podcasting and you can find out at www.schoolofpodcasting.com
and while taking these courses we have meetings every
once in a while and in one of those meetings I had a lady asked me,
if I had
any regrets in my caregiving? Immediately the answer was no. If you
hurt listen
to me anytime at all you know that I have the attitude of I’m not
doing
anything for Mama that Mama didn’t do for me when I was a kid. So
now I don’t
have any regrets taking care Mama.
There are times when Mama doesn’t want to eat or drink
anything. That seems to of gotten worse for some reason this past
week. We
don’t know why all we do know is that there are times when we could
get her
Glucerna shakes down her when we couldn’t get her to eat anything
but for some
reason this week were having a lot of problems getting her to drink
anything.
We’re having to take a spoon and try to get her to take a sip out
of the spoon.
We’ll have to see how long that takes. If you don’t get anything
down her and
she doesn’t get her medicine the right way the right time.
There comes a time in your caregiving where a lot of things
don’t matter anymore. If the one that your caregiving for doesn’t
eat or drink
anything, there’s not a whole lot you can do about it. That would
probably be
my, if I had to pick a regret, in my caregiving that would probably
be it, the
fact that you can’t make them eat, you can put food in front of
them, you can
put drink in front of them, but you can’t make them drink, and that
that would
be my one regret the fact that I can’t force Mama to eat or drink
although I
may try you can’t force them to take anything in.