My partner has vascular dementia. He daughter hung up the other day when she was muddled and confused one a video phone call. C has a UTI, but her daughter has no idea what caused them, just her own misinformed ideas. Then today I got a monologue about free food boxes available to people with COPD and other serious conditions. I have someone doing shopping for us. I actually like shopping on a Saturday at a quiet supermarket in a small N Somerset town. The routine and the drive through the countryside is a brief respite from it all. It's one of the few times I can listen to my own music. It is stressful, I do worry about catching the virus, but they are so good at controlling numbers and about congestion in the shop it never feels as repressive and worrying as some supermarkets in the city.
Does C's daughter care or even listen long enough to understand? Not on your Nellie. She cuts me off in mid sentence. We have been in this extra care housing for three and a half years, she has come over 5 times maybe. Of course, I got fed up being ignored and cut off so I put the phone on my belly and talked to C instead. Did her daughter take the hint and realise how annoyed I was? No, she got offended and hung up.
I have been sole carer for Six and a half years. I am the only one who visits in hospital. Of course, I get angry and make mistakes, but all I get from her daughter is shouted at and talked over as if my opinion and experience means nothing.
Does C's daughter care or even listen long enough to understand? Not on your Nellie. She cuts me off in mid sentence. We have been in this extra care housing for three and a half years, she has come over 5 times maybe. Of course, I got fed up being ignored and cut off so I put the phone on my belly and talked to C instead. Did her daughter take the hint and realise how annoyed I was? No, she got offended and hung up.
I have been sole carer for Six and a half years. I am the only one who visits in hospital. Of course, I get angry and make mistakes, but all I get from her daughter is shouted at and talked over as if my opinion and experience means nothing.