Well yesterday was a real thrill. From the time Dh woke up, I could see we were in for a fun one. Every morning he gets his coffee then walks out to get the paper and its a while before he's ready to eat his breakfast and take his pill. So I was busy doing something when he decided to get some cereal which he does most mornings. I walk thru the kitchen and he's got a bowl of cereal and proceeding to pour fruit juice over his bowl. I said, Honey don't you think milk would be better? He said, we're out. I said no, here's some and he was like no this is fine! And proceeded to eat it. I could only watch, no use in frustrating him. He ate every last drop! LOL............. I figured he would only make him sick so let him do what makes him happy. So how was your day? Rk
fruit juice - well if he ate it so be it! i am having alot of trouble keeping my DH out of the doggie treats...my dogs are quite puzzled as to why their bowl is always empty! :) divvi
It is amazing some of the things they will eat. We went to a Chinese buffet about a year ago and after having one full plate of regular fare, my husband went back for a second plate, which he filled with steamed rice and covered with peach cobbler (which he has always refused to eat). He sat down, mixed it together and ate every bite! He hasn't tried the doggie treats yet, Divvi!
i am also having issues with my 12yr old male chihuahua recently. he has become DH protector and stands his ground next to his feet if i come near DH! haha. he clearly sees his 'weakness' now with the disease, and wants to defend him relentlessly and its become where he walks behind my heels and if i come TOO close to dh he is trying to nip me! yipes! and make sure i dont raise my voice either or he comes running to see if its directed to DH..! haha.. i need the dog whisperer!!! HA! you finally get rid of a territorial husband:) and gain a little holy terror in their place! sigh..Divvi
This isn't about food--but this a.m. I found that yesterday, before exercising on our treadmill, my husband had sprayed silicone on TOP of the belt and then proceeded to exercise on it!!!!!!!!!! This was a first. (The silicone is supposed to go UNDER the belt to keep it lubricated-very slippery.) He even had it set on the highest incline--I am amazed that he didn't fall off. When I Googled "removing silicone from a treadmill" this a.m., I found a post by someone, presumably without AD, who did the same thing! It seems that it is difficult to remove--another project for my "spare time". Needless to say, I hid the silicone spray, which I should have done before this. I am amazed that he even remembered the silicone, it was something we started doing after dx. Just when it would be better to forget about something, he remembers it!
I was on the Atkins diet for a while and kept special food for me. I pointed out the one shelf in our pantry that was just for me. I think that triggered DH to go for my food first even though their was plenty of easy fixings for him. When I got home from work one day I found he had eaten an entire jar of spaghetti sauce like soup. Must have had a month's worth of salt.
My wife did a similar thing to Rk's DH. One morning I saw her pouring orange juice on her cereal. I started to say something, then decided I would see what happened. She ate the whole thing. More recently she has not had OJ since I use apple sauce to carry her pulverized pills and the MCT. Sometimes she puts the apple sauce mixture on her English Muffins in place of marmalade.
Lately, if I put my husband's pill container out first and then go the fridge to get the OJ, he'll just pop them all in his mouth (about 9 pills) and sit there, waiting. Ever try to swallow 9 pills without any water or other liquid? Oh well, at least he still knows what they are and where to put them.
Yesterday my hb called me at work and asked me to stop at the store and bring home: 1 fresh beet, 1 red sweet pepper, and 1 sweet potato. I asked why, "Are you making something special"? "Yes, from something like a book I read." So, I stop at the market (we live in a small, rural town) one (1) that's a SINGLE smallish beet = $4.35!!!!!!!!! 1 sweet red pepper = $1.99, 1 sweet potato ? I didn't look. I called and asked if a can of beets would work, "No, but don't buy that." Good I had permission because I definitely wasn't going to. Came home w/pepper and sweet potato and put the bag on the counter by where he was shredding lettuce and sat to read the paper. Hb: What do you want me to do with this stuff you just brought home"? (What's the emoticom for a dropped jaw?) "Nothing. You asked me to buy them. What are YOU going to do with them? "Nothing, I'll put them away." Then he said, "Oh, I forgot a meat to go with this other food." He'd made us each a small chef salad and put Miracle Whip (plain) on them. Yuck. Boiled broccoli sometime in the aft I guess because it was cooked but cold. Then he opened a pkg of smallish frozen salmon steaks and was about to cut into 2 pkgs. From experience, I know he can't eat a whole one; so I suggested he just open one pkg and cut the steak in two, which he did. Then he asked how to cook it. Okay, I quit reading the paper, put some seasoning on the salmon w/a dollup of honey and nuked it.
I apologize that I rambled w/the whole dinner story. He can do stuff; so I'm really just laughing because from reading posts, I have to appreciate and praise the NOW because.......you've given me fair warning.
Zibby - My DH can't remember how to turn the oven on anymore, so that would have been a feast for me (even with the Miracle Whip)! All we can do is laugh! I'm also glad that I'm not the only one who leaves him home while I go to work. We are in a gated community, so I know he can't wander away. Hugs!
After my DH ate supper, he asked me if I was not cooking anything tonight. OK. so I thought I give him some fruit, since he ate all his food from supper. I peeled an Orange which I took out of the Refrigerator. He says to me, but this is cold. Well yes says I. But you need to heat it up, you know I don't like cold food. So I nukes the sucker and he said it wasn't hot enough. Do you know what nuking does to Orange slices. Well they dry out. So DH decided that they were just right and ate the whole thing. Go figure
DH and I were eating fried fish at a restaurant last week and he picked up the little cup and said "What's this?" I said "tartar sauce, you eat it with your fish." He finished his meal and then ate the tartar sauce with a spoon. I tried not to gag but honestly thought I was going to lose my dinner.
Marsh, has your wife tried eating salsa with a fork instead of chips? My husband does! He normally had coffee to drink when we went to a restaurant and opened two sugars to put in his coffee. We stopped ordering coffee for him months ago, but he still automatically picks out two sugars to put in his "drink" (which is now water). He had stopped drinking the coffee, so we changed over to water. We have learned to grab the sweetner/sugar cup and move it out of his reach when sitting down at our table. I also grab the butter and salad dressing before passing the rolls and salad to him so that I can butter his roll and pour the dressing on his salad on before giving them to him!
Lynn eats candles!!! I buy the squares that you break and melt, and he breaks off pieces and eats it! The first time it happened my niece came running in to tell me, but I didn't believe her. Went out and sure enough, there he was eating it. I hide them now. Last week I caught him eating crisco out of the can.. accccck..gag!
My DH ate a soft candle as well at xmas time with a spoon:) at least a few bites, ihad to laugh, his breath smelled of cinammon..haha...pourpouri is another snack if left out. as well as dog treats. i also do as Mary, and remove anything he can get into from the table as soon as we sit down. he used to love to open packet sof sugar -the last time it was black pepper instead, he poured it directly into his mouth. i know that burned.! aww.he drank lots of tea:) ugh, the thought of eating crisco or tartar sauce directly..well........gag! divvi ps oh yeah, i had to get rid of my gorgeous fake fruit bowl inthe kitche...-DH would carry the grape clusters around with some in his mouth and chew on them -lucky i caught him first time. he could have choked-
I guess I'm lucky so far. He hasn't eaten anything unusual. LOL The only thing he has tried is to poor his glass of milk over the food on his plate.
We don't give him his milk until he eats some food as he will drink the entire glass in one gulp and then complain he doesn't have any and the rest of us do.
He hadn't gotten his glass yet, so he reached over and swiped my son's glass and polished it off. LOL
My husband has said for years that he can't taste or smell anything. Sometimes this seems to be true--one day I substituted Creme de Menthe and water for the usual vodka and water that he drinks, and he didn't say a word. I actually thought he might taste the Creme de Menthe since it's strong and sweet. Anyway, over the weekend we went to a Superbowl party at friends' and they only had Belvedere Vodka, which is expensive. I thought, what a shame, DH can't taste it anyway, so I put cubes in a glass and then went to the kitchen sink and filled it with water. After tasting it, he called me over and said "Did you forget to put the liquor in here?" Unbelieveable. (He didn't see me fill the glass at the sink).
wow all these stories bring back some memories of when my grandma was "getting on in years" back then they thought it was normal but she must have had the big A,she was always a great cook an when we had Christmas dinner one year she wanted to help,so my aunts told her to make the salad,figured she couldn't hurt that much,it looked good but whn my uncle took a forkful,I thought he was gonna upchuck right at the dinner table,she had sprinkled Viatalis(hair stuff) all over the salad thinking it was dressing,I believe that was her last cooking job
You are making me feel old, I actually remember what Vitalis was and and how it smelled. I may have actually used some of it in my youth. At this stage of my life I have no use for either hair tonic or a comb.
or maybe preparation H on your toothbrush:)i think his gums shrunk instead..HA! anything in a tube can go on his toothbrush if you arent watching...Divvi
I think that was more something our kids did. When our oldest daughter was teaching American History and got to the 60's she would dress as she did then, bring her guitar, and take the students (high school) outside under a tree and sing protest songs. I wish I'd had a history teacher like that.
In 1957, turtlenecks and flat top haircuts were popular, as well as ducktail haircuts - and other fads: poodles on felt skirts, saddle shoes, pony tails, wearing our dad's long sleeve white shirts with the sleeves rolled up.....boy, the memories of high school!
Marsh, our teachers were old, staid, and rarely smiled......I wish I had had your daughter and mine - she makes the science projects with food, and allows the students to eat the treats afterwards!
I still have the poodle skirt that I made hanging in the closet. Who knows someone might want to take me bunny hopping again. May be that good looking guy on the front of the TV guide this week. DH asked who he was this morning and if he was here last night. I said, no and he said I have seen him around here. I am having a lot more fun in his mind than I am having in real life. It's better to laugh than to cry.
My lady called and is coming tomorrow for 4 hours to clean and stay with dh. I am not telling him this glorious news until in the morning. He will imagine me meeting a man somewhere and maybe not coming home. He is good to ride around with me and wait on me to do errands so he is really not much trouble as long as I don't have to take him to the bathroom. I have bathrooms (friendly) located all over town, mostly Mc, Hardees, gas stations. But, heck I have someone coming to dust, sweep and mop and I don't want to stay here and help her. I may get my facial hair waxed.
Gourdchipper in the sixies,I was well on my way to being a family man,(four girls in 6 years) so what ever the fads were as I remember I was too busy trying to stay working for GM,I'm guessing you didn't read my reply to you under the sex chat thingy,that would give you some insight into my rather dull childhood,perhaps thats what led to 4 kids in six years
imohr, having a wax on my fun day out i dont think so! ouch. i can do that at home when i feel particularly masochistic..i buy the wax at beauty supply and do it myself!divvi
Mary, you brought two memories to me when you mentioned duck tail hair cuts and men's white shirts. One a good memory, one a bad one. The bad one was that I wanted a duck tail hair cut and none of the beauty shops in town would do them so my mother took me to the barber shop (no co-ed shops back then). The barber agreed to give me the duck tail but what we did not realize was that he was drunk. He didn't give me a duck tail, he cut my hair like a boys! A 50's boy where they shaved the neck and all. The white shirt one was better. I was wearing on of my father's white shirts, short shorts, had curlers in my hair and was barefoot. I went down the street to where my sisters were playing with the children who lived over the diner in town. Had to walk through the diner to get to the living quarters. A guy at the counter (whom I knew but had never dated) told me that if I would go home, take the curlers out of my hair, put on some shoes and leave my pants off, he would take me out tonight. He did. We married two years later and had 20 great years until he passed away of a heart attack. Thanks for the memories.
Has anyone ever heard why it is common for AD patients to accuse their spouses of fooling around with someone else? Do the women do it too? My husband has said things in a kidding way about my boyfriend--I answer him that there's no way I could handle or want another man. Right now it's done in a joking way, but I never remember him even kidding about it before dx. Could it be they feel so diminished, handicapped/emasculated by the disease, unable to work or drive, that they assume we would look elsewhere? Or is it just another weird symptom that's impossible to figure out?
Bama when you said bunny hop, I remembered the music, clear as a bell. Do any of you Southern gals remember hoop skirts? And the chiffon handkerchief hanging from our ring? Cappezios? Bonnie Brooks blouses? The New Look?
A few years ago, DH bought a laser printer. The printer I was using died shortly thereafter, his was in his office and used a lot, so I replaced mine with the same model as his. When his toner got low, I bought 2 new toner cartridges. About a year ago, he put one of the toner cartridges in his computer. About that time, he stopped using the printer. Recently, mine ran out of toner. Since he hadn’t used his much, I took the toner cartridge out of his printer and put it in mine. It wouldn’t print, indicated a paper problem, and I didn’t have the time to deal with it until recently. It kept giving me different error messages and I finally asked my DS (grad student in computer science who lives with us) to please just fix it.
He checked it out. Asked where the other new toner cartridge was. He asked if there were any extra pieces of printer in Dad’s office. I didn’t like the way this was going. Finally he told me what happened. My DH had put in the new toner cartridge and thrown out the drum that was in the printer. In my haste, I had grabbed the toner from his printer and tossed MY printer drum also. My DH, when asked, mentioned that he had never gotten his printer to work.
If you are keeping track, that is 2 laser printers; 2 new toner cartridges; 2 drums tossed out. One DS who couldn’t believe what his parents had done. The printers are just old enough that they now cost more than a new one. Drum cost more than a new one.
As my DS told me later, “at least Dad has a reason for his error”.
Fortunately, this happened in time to buy a new printer at Christmas sale price……
Well we just had a Alrighty Then moment. Getting ready to go up to bed tonight and Dh tells me, he thinks he will go get a job! I am like Really? Hmmmm Alrighty Then! LOL Rk