With the kinds of food she is getting, its repetitiveness, how it is prepared and cooked, the consistency of her mealtimes, and with its taste.
When you have lived as long as my dear mother has, and when you have diabetes and hypertension.
Not only do you have to make significant changes to how the kinds of foods and drinks you consume are prepared.
But there is also a high degree of likelihood that they will not taste as original and remarkable as they did several decades ago.
And will recite the litany of her dissatisfaction to all who is willing to listen to her.
Normally resulting in them wanting to help her, and sometimes simply making the situation more confusing, including for her.
Making it worse will sometimes mean taking my dear mother's account of 'what has happened', at face value, and drawing the obvious conclusion and acting on it.
That can mean accosting this or that person with what my dear mother has alleged or complained of.
Only to find that, again, my dear mother has, deliberately and/or partly due to her increasingly faulty short-term memory. Omitted to give me, and others, a sufficiently detailed and chronological account of the incident.
But not before having offended their feelings, if not actually making enemies of them. However understanding they might be try to be
It does not help that she tends to hold on to more negative views and adds to and regurgitates them than the average person might be inclined to do.
To be continued!
Making it worse will sometimes mean taking my dear mother's account of 'what has happened', at face value, and drawing the obvious conclusion and acting on it.
That can mean accosting this or that person with what my dear mother has alleged or complained of.
Only to find that, again, my dear mother has, deliberately and/or partly due to her increasingly faulty short-term memory. Omitted to give me, and others, a sufficiently detailed and chronological account of the incident.
But not before having offended their feelings, if not actually making enemies of them. However understanding they might be try to be
It does not help that she tends to hold on to more negative views and adds to and regurgitates them than the average person might be inclined to do.
To be continued!
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