no slaps for my kids they all saw there dad but he scared the pants off of all of them when his bp got so low, don`t think they liked sitting in his room for a long day watching the machine and him struggling to live, hope theyall learned there lesson GO VISIT DAD!
Never heard from estranged daughter in TN. She and I butt heads all the time, but dad is fine. Doesn't make sense since he was more or less and absentee father leaving me with all the raising to do. Now I am the bad one.
Son lives next door and was just another day. Just as well since they will make comments like 'I know you won't remember this' or 'while you know who we are' , etc. DIL thinks it is funny.
No slaps for this Father's Day ~ My 2 step kids (his kids) came by together ~ It was a good visit since we had not seen them since Christmas. Our daughter called from NYC. All in all, a very nice day...esp when he got to eat "TO GO" from Romano's Macaroni Grill!! Still loving it on Monday evening :)
Nope, here, just loneliness. No calls, notes. No sweetness. John knew it, too. We're alone. Slap, slap, slap. Glad you all had such a wonderfull F.D. I'm envious. I miss my family.
THANK YOU, SHELLSEEKER50! I found there are services you can actually hire to go deliver things or messages to people you don't like. How awful (?). Like a box of cockroaches in a pretty pink candybox, songs with mean lyrics, etc. Mean? (?) naaawww....I would NEVER employ such a service!
My dear hubby's 5 kids never called or anything. His birthday was in May and they never came or called that day either. One son just lives right down the road. They all live in the same county as us. His once favorite son we have seen one time in the last 3 years. Slap! Slap! Slap! Slap! Slap! Yea, I feel better now.
SLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPing......Gail, you're RIGHT IN MY SHOES! Feels terrible. And yours are right there nearby?! Mine and your's should be pulicly CANED.
Slap Slap to people who have no ethics or morals. My dil is one. She has been driving on an expired license for 6 months now. She didn't want to loose her CDL and needed a physical before she could renew her license. She doesn't save money and believes the system 'owes her'. Their church needed another driver for to take youth to a summer camp - got them to pay for the physical, her license and camping for my son and kids while she is there (and the gas for him to drive to the campground). A few weeks ago they got a large tent for free on craigslist. One time before and today the wind blew and broke poles. What did she do?? Took it to walmart, told them she doesn't have the receipt but that it is defective cause the poles keep breaking. Wal-mart bought her sob story and gave her a new one. She has no ethics, integrity or morals as far as i am concerned. He doens't work - on unemployment from OR finally but then the state of WA took it to pay back when a previous one was challenged. My sister lets them slide on rent = they are suppose to be using his disability check from the Marine Corp to pay off bills but she spends whenever she can. They were on welfare, food stamps and she and the kids have been on state medical for a couple years.
We love the grandkids but it is so hard to be around users like them. Arggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
Slap to that lady in the store who could not understand what my wife was asking her. She looked at me and said loudly.."What is wrong with her, Alzheimers?? I replied "You are correct, but it is not as severe as yours.
Double slap to the lady who insisted that there are 2 kinds of AD, the "good kind", and the bad kind......Did anyone ever hear of a "good kind of AD"????
phranque, your answer to that insensitive lady was perfect! That in itself was a SLAP to her. Your experience just proves how much education is still needed for the public---too many people just do not get it!
Could not believe my ears this morning when the one sister of DH who lives the closest and has been helping a little, told me that I "have to tell DH he can't just demand them to help with things. And he can't just expect them to drop everything and do it right then." I am to explain this to him. "He can ask." I broke into her rant to say, "He won't understand. His reason button is broken. The best thing is for you to tell him you will or won't and when. He'll have to put up with that." This on top of the sister visiting from NJ, who was rabid about getting him off his cigarettes--he's on meds to quit, so what does she bring him? Some cigarettes to tide him over through the quitting (weaning?) process. SLAPS to them, both.
ttt for any new slappers -divvi my pest control guy who i asked if his spray was toxic for my dogs before he sprayed the pool area then found a note on the door as he left to be sure to keep pets inside for the day -divvi
My mailman, who continues to deliver mail to my old address, despite a note taped ON the mail box, and a change of address form submitted to have started on June 27th.
My stupid, inconsiderate daughter-in-law. They have all been sick including my 3 year old granddaughter who has pneumonia that has not responded to two different antibiotics. Instead of keeping the kids in their apartment, she has let them run around the house coughing. My DIL has been the worst at coughing. (my sister built an apartment on her house for her son who bailed but they share the kitchen and dining room). My sister now has it - not good for a 70 year old woman. ON top of that she was to have her cataract surgery on Tuesday (14th) and now will have to cancel. She has a spot on her lung but the doctor didn't think it was pneumonia.
My brother is out from Virginia and a sister is coming from Ohio for a family reunion next weekend. It will be the first time all 7 of us will be together since 1990. If she is too sick to make it, I will really be pissed!!
Forgot - the night my brother arrived she came into the livingroom and was coughing all over - not even covering her mouth. He got sick last night but not as bad as my sister. He is 69.
They just got back from the doctors and I confronted them. DIL ran into the house. Son cried about how they all are sick. I told him but you are young = she is 70. A lot more serious. He got nasty yelling his favorite profanity at me. Art told him to stop talking to his mother that way and got face to face with him. He said he would talk to me anyway he wanted cause he was tired of me complaining about his wife. I said she doesn't seem to care if she makes others sick. She should grow up and keep the kids in their apartment with her only going in to fix dinner. They just don't get it.
Thanks for bringing this ttt, Deb112958! Slapping the punk at Fryes Electronics for making DH and I BOTH feel like we were retarded when asking questions about flat screen tv's. And by the way, his name was Sasha. Feel free to slap him if he crosses your path!
Double cheek slap for Mike at DPS who says DH did real well on driving test -- passed, in fact. Agreed with me that DH did tend to drift to whatever direction DH was looking. Duh??
What?? He actually said that? How horrible. I would report him to someone. As long as you can keep him safe, that is your choice, not his whether to put him in a NH. So sorry.
Can you report him to some association or something? It's not up to the doctor to decide where your DH should be. As long as he is safe, it's nobody's business. What kind of doctor would do that! Gosh, this really worked me up. I'm truly angry for you and give him a double slap.
Multiple slaps to whomever left a momma cat and 10 young kittens in a box in the woods in this area. Today the shelter called to ask me if I would foster them. They'll be coming here Saturday. Poor momma kitty must be exhausted with that many little ones. Slap, slap, slap. I don't understand how people can be cruel to animals. Slap!!!!
My sister and brother just left for California to spend Christmas with her daughter. Before she left she asked Art where an additive was that she bought to put in the gas. He couldn't remember and she said her all too common response: my frontal lobe is shrinking so I forget too so you are not alone!" She thinks it is funny and I don't and neither does Art. (she had an MRI early in the year for something unrelated to forgetting and the doctor told her she had shrinkage of the frontal lobe normal for her age). Her forgetfulness is normal from all I read online but she likes to compare it to Art's forgetfulness trying to make him feel better I guess.
I so want to slap, slap, slap her every time she says it because telling her it is not the same falls on deaf ears.
Another slap, slap, slap is when she says: I know what you are going through. No she doesn't. She didn't spend 38 years with a man, have plans for your later years and have something end it. I know people die suddenly from illness and accidents, but this is not sudden. I think sudden would be better. He latest husband died at 86 after he gave up when he had a stroke 3 years into their marriage.
Slap, Slap, Slap to my youngest brother who thinks I should ignore the symptoms, live like he is normal, stop thinking of the future - just live today. As you all know - it is not that easy. We live the day but have to plan for the future as much as we can.
I've been thinking...a slap or a knee to the groin is too gentle for what I'm feeling. I have a device for , ummm, "neutering" cattle, sheep, etc. THAT to my two older step-sons (the lawyer and the computer geek that haven't seen thier dad but gladly drew law suits against me last year). I'm almost ashamed to say it, but I shoulda, coulda done a "Bobbit" on John many years ago, too.
My girls, the step ones.....VICIOUS slap and a rock thrown up side the head...then as they're lying there unconcious, shave thier heads. Draw moustaches on them with a permanent Sharpie marker....black. (oh, and steal and sell...to good homes only...her yappy, tiny little Hollywood chihuahuas). She'd go over the "edge", like me. More therapy in her future.
For my own daughter...double slap and maybe a kick in the knee caps for her participation in and approval of the actions of the others. I'd shave HER head, too, and do her make-up with a Sharpie, too. But, I'd add HUGE red lips and a smile like the Joker on Batman....before she wakes up. Another thought....since all of this would simply lead me to time in the slammer, I'd hire the jobs out to anyone who'd do it and use the rest of what is in John's P.O.A. account to pay for it. HA! Then, let Social Services try to figure out what I used THAT cash for! OOOOOOH, I am EVIL inside. (Yes, I'm in therapy...here and at a real doctor)
And another thing.....to all the Social Services people that think I'm hiding funds and are making my life unbearable........POW! CAP 'EM and get someone ELSE to work on this case of mine!! (so sorry. Bad day) Love (to my friends), Jen
I want to slap the next person I see that knows us that says..."Well, Jim isn't as bad as you said he seems pretty good to me!" and if the wife of husband is with that person and agrees I want to the slap them too.
That JUDITH was the absolute worst thing anyone could say to Me. Later, after he died, I wanted to go back and say, ".....and you didn't believe me, did you?"
Slap to my hairdresser....when I told her DH was accepted by Hospice.... Her mouth dropped open and she just froze. She said, "Why??????????????? People don't die just because they have "memory problems".... I so wanted to quietly get up and walk out of her salon. I would have, but I had little foil papers all over my head!!!
Slap to one of my in-laws. Yesterday, during a brief telephone conversation, she saw fit to remind me that the meals we had been having delivered weren't free, but were paid for with people's tax money. (Gee, and I was so sure that the food fairy brought them.) At the time I didn't really want to blow up at her, but now I wish I had.
Here I thought I had such a good plan—have my husband contract a fatal disease, destroy our finances and my health to take care of him, and then when he got far enough along, we could cheat the taxpayers out of free meals!
Do some people really not have a life.....come on. Yes this is just the way you and the rest of us wanted our lives to go. Don't let it get to you Jan K, some people are just clueless.
I can think of quite a few people that I'd like to slap....but Jan, I'm letting them go so I CAN SLAP YOUR IN-LAW! OMG! What an idiot!!! Double slap to her!!!!
I don't know if MOW gets tax money. My sister was involved in preparing meals for delivery for many years, as a volunteer. I thought it was all volunteer & donations. Either way, sending a 2x4 to slap your in-law upside the head.
Jan, make room for me to smack that out law of your! So you get some much needed help with a meals on wheels kind of thing and she resents it?! As if you have not paid taxes too!!! Bat her a good one for me.
Now for my smackum...my hiking partner who said just the other day that I should not listen in to the private conversation with the kids...it is ok with callers who are doing surveys or telemarketers..bun not the kids or friends! Could not get it thought her thick skull that he does not tell me of plans that get maid by him with others, that information he gives out is not correct most of the time...she just kept on and on..and I finally just said, quite firmly, enough..I am doing it MY way. She thinks because her mother is 92 and a little forgetful but not of the AD kind, and that she has full time care givers for her mother and between herself and her sister they can run errands with her to the doctor or the care givers go if they are working, that she "Knows what I am dealing with",,,NOT IN THE LEAST DOES SHE GET IT!