Hi everyone.
I was just wondering, mum won't eat anything and has eaten very little opver the past few weeks. I cannot remember the last proper meal mum had. She has breakfast cereals in the morning and sometime sshe eats it sometimes she doesn't, then she mayhave a pastie or a sandwich or a sausage roll at lunchtime. Most days this is in the bin when I get there again at tea time.
Every night now we have to have words because mum refuses point blank to let me make her something to eat. She says she will do it herself when she is ready as she is not hungry.
a) she is not capable of "doing it herself"
b) I know she just is not interested in food at all.
She does not particularly look like she is losing weight or anything and physically is as strong as an ox, but I wonder how long she can go on not eating properl;y.
She eats sweets like a child and will eat crisps and biscuits non stop, (which is probably why she won't eat proper meals) but we have only just started getting her sweets in and she had decided before this that she would not eat anything proper. If I take her a meal round she says things like "it smells funny (usually if I have done her a sald with boiled egg on it) or if I do her a proper dinner with meat and veg, she just pushes it up the table and says "it'snot a patch on mine". and then proceeds to ask me what I do to her meals to make them so bad .
Now don't get me wrong, I don't profess to be Delia Smith but my own family have not starved and I have 2 strapping 6 footers for sons so I must have done something right in the cooking stakes.
I am now getting really worried about her but if I mention the word Dr , or Carers she goes absolutely mad and shouts and gets really angry and she would actually barricade herself in before she would let anyone in her house.
Please can anyone advise me what to do!
Maggie x
I was just wondering, mum won't eat anything and has eaten very little opver the past few weeks. I cannot remember the last proper meal mum had. She has breakfast cereals in the morning and sometime sshe eats it sometimes she doesn't, then she mayhave a pastie or a sandwich or a sausage roll at lunchtime. Most days this is in the bin when I get there again at tea time.
Every night now we have to have words because mum refuses point blank to let me make her something to eat. She says she will do it herself when she is ready as she is not hungry.
a) she is not capable of "doing it herself"
b) I know she just is not interested in food at all.
She does not particularly look like she is losing weight or anything and physically is as strong as an ox, but I wonder how long she can go on not eating properl;y.
She eats sweets like a child and will eat crisps and biscuits non stop, (which is probably why she won't eat proper meals) but we have only just started getting her sweets in and she had decided before this that she would not eat anything proper. If I take her a meal round she says things like "it smells funny (usually if I have done her a sald with boiled egg on it) or if I do her a proper dinner with meat and veg, she just pushes it up the table and says "it'snot a patch on mine". and then proceeds to ask me what I do to her meals to make them so bad .
Now don't get me wrong, I don't profess to be Delia Smith but my own family have not starved and I have 2 strapping 6 footers for sons so I must have done something right in the cooking stakes.
I am now getting really worried about her but if I mention the word Dr , or Carers she goes absolutely mad and shouts and gets really angry and she would actually barricade herself in before she would let anyone in her house.
Please can anyone advise me what to do!
Maggie x