I’m sick to death of seeing her moaning about her night shifts and not seeing her husband get vegan tit food then this. Is it me or is she having a go at family’s not visiting? Just do your job. She’s so boring. As someone whose lost people to dementia it’s not as easy as it may seem and paying to have them in a care home is not an easy choice.
Working in dementia care, she should know better than to shame families. Having a parent with dementia is the worst thing that I have ever had to cope with. everyday is a fight for them to get care. no one gives a
tit, not the care home, not GPs. Relatives have to battle constantly and on top of that, going to visit is another mental and emotional battering. There are so many reasons that families may not visit often. top of the list - their own mental health is in the toilet. It doesn’t mean they don’t care, it’s actually the opposite. The more you love someone, the harder it is to watch them
deteriorate and self preservation kicks in.
I was the first to say I would be there for my parent everyday if they ever went into a home. in reality, it was there years of fighting on their behalf for the most basic of things, the anxiety of knowing that when you went to visit, there would be another issue to complain about, the guilt, the Stress. I couldn’t visit all the time for my own sanity. Three years of of that before my parents death at Christmas has left me with severe anxiety and PTSD.
So Jen can
duck right off.