Morning y’all…
I have several errand to run this morning. Already did all my routines and watered my gardens. Phew, it’s hot out there with 95* plus humidity. Remind me why I moved her from the desert
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Life with an engineer with Alzheimer’s …yesterday we needs to place an area rug pad with the rug under my king size wooden bed. After clearing the room and moving furniture we had to take the king size mattress and Bo springs off and put them against the wall. Somehow we managed to get the mattress into our bathroom.
I wanted to take the bed apart but oh no Sweetie just wanted to slide the pad and then the rug under the bed. What a mess! I knew it wasn’t going to work, but I couldn’t get Sweetie to change his mind. It was very frustrating and I had to hold my tongue many times as he was insistent that this would work
Here’s part of the problem … neither the pad nor the rug were square to each other and the pad turned out to be bigger than the rug. After much maneuvering and manpower from both of us we finally got the rug where it needed to be. I knew the pad could be cut because I had recently cut one to fit another rug. However nothing we had …scissors or box uteri’s would do the job so off HD we went.
Bought a new box utter and since it was late afternoon we decided to eat at our favorite fast food place…that turned out to be a blessing
You see Thursday we worked in the attic and came out hot and sweaty… in fact Sweetie was dripping wet and so was his clothes. We had our dgd’s graduation to go to and I notice Sweetie had just rinsed his head off. He stunk! I kindly mentioned that to him and asked if he was planning to change his clothes and take a shower and he went off on me… never done that before.
So I backed off, went into the other room and considered my options. I couldn’t let him go like that and embarrass himself in front of others. Eventually he decided to take a swim in the pool…that worked for me and he did put on fresh clothes. He was still snarly to me.
So last night while we had just finished our meal i mentioned I noticed he was much more frustrated with in in the passing days and asked why… I figure it’s because he is frustrated with what’s going on in his head. He told me he knew he was and said he felt like I was trying to control him. I got that.
He say my concerns and helpfulness towards him as controlling him. We were able to clear the are and have a very positive conversation now that we each understand what’s going on.
Don’t know how long this will last but at least it’s a start. I told him it was difficult for me as it is for him because I don’t intentionally mean to step on his toes
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