QFT. Today's latest with my dad is that apparently he *won't* look into the hearing aids he thought sounded like a great option a few days ago. He had significant enough hearing loss several years ago that he was given NHS-issued hearing aids, and he doesn't like them because they just amplify all sounds. But instead of paying for better ones - which aren't cheap, but he can 100% afford them - he just insists that he can hear most things and then pouts when he thinks he's being ignored because he can't hear the group conversation. I notice his hearing is worse even since Christmas, but apparently it's just our fault we talk too softly.
My dad is the same way! He has pretty bad hearing loss in one ear and didn't like the aids he tried so he gave up. Thankfully his other ear is ok, but if you happen to be sitting on his bad side and try to speak to him, he won't even know. I don't know why he won't just try some others, I think it would make his life a lot easier!
Whenever my mom mentions being frustrated with a family member or friend being stubborn about aging or health stuff, I tell her to remember that when it's her turn. I know we all think we won't be like that.
Hearing loss is linked with dementia. When I realized that I had an actual physical loss, I marched myself right into an audiologists office and haven't looked back. There's no way I want to fight monsters every day like my gpa did for a year before he died.
My dad is the same way! He has pretty bad hearing loss in one ear and didn't like the aids he tried so he gave up. Thankfully his other ear is ok, but if you happen to be sitting on his bad side and try to speak to him, he won't even know. I don't know why he won't just try some others, I think it would make his life a lot easier!
Whenever my mom mentions being frustrated with a family member or friend being stubborn about aging or health stuff, I tell her to remember that when it's her turn. I know we all think we won't be like that.
Hearing loss is linked with dementia. When I realized that I had an actual physical loss, I marched myself right into an audiologists office and haven't looked back. There's no way I want to fight monsters every day like my gpa did for a year before he died.
Yes, my dad had major hearing loss for most of his life, and the doctor treating him in the hospital told me about the hearing loss/dementia link. As I understand it, it’s a combination of a certain amount of “use it or lose it” type of atrophy, plus the likelihood that we played off some strange early behaviors as “he must not have heard me”.
And dad resisted hearing aids for years. And when he was really agitated near the end of his life, he’d refuse to put them in. But if we did get them in, he’d calm down.
I just got an email from my son's MIDDLE school saying that the DoorDash and UberEats deliveries to the school need to stop. What the everloving f*ck is going on? Are the kids ordering themselves? Are the parents ordering for the kids? I just can't even imagine doing this... maybe that makes me old?!
DS1 is a freshman and told me the other day in resource a kid was eating a steak he had ubered to school.
Big Kid is having a tough time with this assignment she's doing. It's a room model and they have to figure out volume and area and stuff. But she's so unmotivated and getting frustrated because now it's 830 and she's SO TIRED and doesn't want to do it. If she doesn't do this part tonight so the glue can dry, she cant do the next part tomorrow night. I hate that I can't just tell her to do it tomorrow when she's not so tired. I hate that I can't do this for her. I am trying to toe the line of helping her with directions without just telling her what to do and it's so hard to not just give her step by step directions.
My parents never helped like this. I would have been up in secret in my room in the middle of the night before it was due to try to finish. Or I'd take the letter grade off and turn it in a day late.
I'm 99% sure she has ADHD. I will be bringing it up at her well visit in a few weeks. I think this frustration with larger projects is going to get worse as she gets older and it may be time to get her help before it becomes more of an issue. Even just confirming it's ADHD would be a big help.
Big Kid is having a tough time with this assignment she's doing. It's a room model and they have to figure out volume and area and stuff. But she's so unmotivated and getting frustrated because now it's 830 and she's SO TIRED and doesn't want to do it. If she doesn't do this part tonight so the glue can dry, she cant do the next part tomorrow night. I hate that I can't just tell her to do it tomorrow when she's not so tired.
My SD gets so overwhelmed when tired. It’s pointless. I always say, go to sleep let’s try again tomorrow. If it’s not perfect or parts don’t get done, some is better than all. And it’s never productive at this point in the night.
Big Kid is having a tough time with this assignment she's doing. It's a room model and they have to figure out volume and area and stuff. But she's so unmotivated and getting frustrated because now it's 830 and she's SO TIRED and doesn't want to do it. If she doesn't do this part tonight so the glue can dry, she cant do the next part tomorrow night. I hate that I can't just tell her to do it tomorrow when she's not so tired.
My SD gets so overwhelmed when tired. It’s pointless. I always say, go to sleep let’s try again tomorrow. If it’s not perfect or parts don’t get done, some is better than all. And it’s never productive at this point in the night.
Usually I would do the same, but she'd been avoiding this work literally since she got home from school. If it were more than measuring, cutting, and gluing down paper I would have sent her to bed and figured it out tomorrow. She did finish with a lot of guidance at 930, which isn't that much later than her usual bedtime. She thanked me for helping her before she went up, which almost made me cry. She gets overwhelmed if she looks at the project as a whole, splitting it into parts like this helps her get a better grip on the next steps so she can actually do the project. Tomorrow should be easier now that she's got a start.