Hello everyone, It's been a while since I last posted on here. Dad's VAD has progressed quite a lot but he is still in his own home with his dog. I now have the carers going in two mornings a week for a bath call which seems to be working out okay, I have also had a key safe fitted.
Since Dad's appetite picked up after the diagnosis of gastritis & being put on tablets for it, together with Prozac, he now eats.
Sometimes he forgets he has someone coming to do his lunch or tea & tries to prepare something himself. Twice in the last month he has been caught putting opened tins, once rice pudding, once chicken soup in the microwave. A few months ago he had managed to order a chinese take away on the Sunday night & was caught by the cleaning lady re-heating it in the foil cartons in the microwave on the Monday morning.
The carers need the microwave but I want to stop him from using it. I am thinking of buying a new one, I believe there are some child proof ones but would not know where to get one & how exactly they work. I also wondered if there were microwaves especially designed to prevent dementia suffers using them. Is there anyone with experience of this?
Also how dangerous is this? He seemed to microwave the foil cartons without an issue & from what I understand he managed to microwave the rice pudding before the carer found him without anything happening. I got there in time yesterday to stop him microwaving the soup.
Since Dad's appetite picked up after the diagnosis of gastritis & being put on tablets for it, together with Prozac, he now eats.
Sometimes he forgets he has someone coming to do his lunch or tea & tries to prepare something himself. Twice in the last month he has been caught putting opened tins, once rice pudding, once chicken soup in the microwave. A few months ago he had managed to order a chinese take away on the Sunday night & was caught by the cleaning lady re-heating it in the foil cartons in the microwave on the Monday morning.
The carers need the microwave but I want to stop him from using it. I am thinking of buying a new one, I believe there are some child proof ones but would not know where to get one & how exactly they work. I also wondered if there were microwaves especially designed to prevent dementia suffers using them. Is there anyone with experience of this?
Also how dangerous is this? He seemed to microwave the foil cartons without an issue & from what I understand he managed to microwave the rice pudding before the carer found him without anything happening. I got there in time yesterday to stop him microwaving the soup.