By sparkx555 - 03/01/2012 16:07 - United Kingdom

Today, I ignored my phone, as my mother has dementia and calls me 15 or so times a day, thinking each time is the first. I braved horrendous rain and gale-force winds to go to work. Turns out it was work calling to tell me not to bother coming in. FML
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sparkx555 7

ok, my mother lives with my brother, she is in the early stages of demetia, she's never left alone, i do everything for her, except answer the phone 15 or more times a day to answer the same questions. i do love her, more than anything, but the phone thing, between her and the nusiance sales calls, I feel a little demented myself! And I could have done with the day off, I would have spent it with her.

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picklemonger 13

Time to invest in caller ID!

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xhwkx 5

Just my two cents... As someone who works as a Health Care Aide, I can understand what OP is going through. I have many patients who do the same reptious behaviours over and over again, day in and day out. It can be a bit frustrating to sit through the same questions repeatedly. With that said, she is your mother and others made a good point, she will be gone one day and you'll wish you could listen to those stories 15 times a day. As long as you don't ignore every call and make an effort to talk to her, it's understandable from both sides.

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Clarice1 9

This may sound harsh, but I'd like to point out that it's not as though the mother's going to spend a lot of time with hurt feelings, since within a few hours she probably won't remember that she tried to call.

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Clarice1 9

I help care for my grandmother, who has Alzheimer's, and I've learned to accept the not-very-noble realization that there's one almost tolerable thing about it -- unlike in almost every other imperfect family situation, you actually can start over with a clean slate.

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ElricMustang 23

Would've been nice to at least see who it was. Oh what was it called? Uhhh, Caller ID?!

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alychick 5

That's what u get for ignoring ur phone lol jkjk

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1beee 3

Uh you don't know the full story #9 has gone through. Some kids have to take care of their single mother or father even at the age of 10, so having to take care and experience a mother or father with an illness singlehandedly at the age of 18 is not impossible and quite rude to #9.

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imazaari 12

Oh, I'm so sorry that the woman who PUSHED YOU FROM HER WOMB wants to talk to you. Ungrateful children are taking over the world.

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Selkhe 10

You're an idiot. Dealing with dementia has nothing to do with being ungrateful. Time to stop being disrespectful to kids and assuming that parents can do nothing wrong/annoying, and if a kid doesn't kiss their ass when they're grown up, well, it's because they're a horrible child and it has absolutely NOTHING to do with circumstances you don't know about right?

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