I just have to relate a "Memorable Event" that occurred this morning. It actually is quite hilarious, though it didn't immediately strike me that way when it happened. It is a kind of confluence between two different aspects of my mom's life.
We gave up using tissues some years ago. My mom went through a period when she had a lot of mucus coming down the back of her throat . The medical profession was not particularly helpful about this, and we just had to ride our way through it - blessedly she is no longer plagued with this problem, probably because I experimented and made some changes in her diet.
At the time though - and it lasted for several years - she required enormous amounts of something to spit into and we would have used several boxes of tissues a day I reckon. Added to that, being basically a tidy-minded soul, when we did have tissues she began to push the pulled-out piece of the next tissue back into the box. And that wasn't all - in time she would follow that with the pieces of tissue she had actually used. Aargh!
So I compromised and bought a nice quality toilet roll - there was much more of it for the price and we didn't have quite the same disposal problems - just over to me to pick it all up from the floor and wherever else it accumulated.
As I may have already mentioned, I have great trouble getting my mom to drink. I make her green china tea and there is always an enamel mug of it sitting on the small table by her side. I am forever making the stuff - or warming it up - and trying to get her to drink it because I know she has headache problems and it's the best stuff I have found to help me on the occasions when I get a headache.
This morning I turned round from working to discover she had sat the toilet roll crookedly on top of her mug of tea, and the part of the roll that was hanging down into the mug had soaked up as much of the tea as it could. The roll was useless, being almost totally soaked in tea - and the tea level for once had diminished quite considerably.
Mission accomplished? Aah well ...............
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