Have you ever had to convince your DW (or DH) to help you change them after they have had a PeePee Accident?
I just spent a 1 hour and 45 mintues (approx) to get my DW to help me change her. As of a few days ago, she forgot that I was her husband. Yet this morning, she woke up and roused me ( I was sleeping on the couch) that she had a PeePee incident. No problem, got all cleaned up and everything was fine.
This afternoon was different. She was giving me a hard time... it took awhile, but we got rid of the pee for the moment. I know that my DW probably feels that her privacy is being invaded and is upset about that... and the Pee. And she now doesn't think I'm her husband. That's bad.
When I changed her this morning, she said I was a good boy! That was good!
So how long does it take you to do the PeePee Shuffle? What works, what doesn't?
I need to go change now as I think I smell pee on me... alrighty then!!
My DW just wears maxi pads I have to tell her when to change them. I do not know if I am up to the poop duty. I know you do what you have to, I think that is the ultimate of giving of yourself for your mate. You deserve a badge, what we do for our mates does put us to the test. I will have to wait for my turn on that one and see what happens. I think I'll tile the bedroom.
Well to tell ya the truth, and I know it won't be a walk through the roses, but I worked in a Slaughter house in my teens and I've seen more than a life's worth of more then smelly muck and deep mire.
I just want to get her cleaned up as soon as possible and what bothers me is that, at least now, she is giving me a hard time about helping her get cleaned up. I want to do it, I need to do it, I just want to know how I can get her to let me do it.
Maybe it won't be so hard for her to let me do it at some point, but now it has been two weeks or so since i have been doing the pee pee shuffle, and ony since the other day, when she forgot that I was her husband, has she given me a hard time about helping her get and Spic and span.
When you are in the number one situation, you just begin to make it a habit to take them to the bathroom every two hours. If you can, and if they need your help, get the pants down and help them sit on the toilet (I say help them - because some of the spice develop visual perception problems and the toilet is a "black hole" and they are afraid of it). I bought rubber gloves and Cottonelle wet wipes. These are absolutely necessary for the number two situation. I flush after three Cottonelles, just to make certain that they won't stop up the toilet. I keep Clorox Wipes on the back of the toilet, so that afterwards, I can wipe down the toilet.
Should the number two mess be severe, it is ONE STEP into the bathtub, where I have a detachable shower head, and can hose him down and soap and rinse him and dry him off, and help him back to the bed, where I can sit him down and redress him. Trying to dress him while he stands doesn't work.....his muscles don't always work for lifting the feet when I need for him to do so.
GuitarGuy, trying carrying on a conversation about something that has nothing to do with the bathroom while helping her...it will distract her from what you are doing. Sometimes just being matter of fact as if what you are doing is normal and a part of the day seems to help the situation.
I agree with the matter of fact approach. Fortunately Charlie did not give me much of a problem but I tried to keep it low key without a lot of discussion about what we were doing. He was afraid of the toilet and sometimes I asked him to dance with me and danced him right onto the toilet. It worked for a while.