Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Could this be a diet issue and the fact that moving around even less than usual can hinder "keeping regular".

Probably. I can't do force-feeding though.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

... if they hear you at least they'll feel that you care for them...

Here it's more likely to start a squabble between them, with one declaring "Don't be so ridiculous - and grow up"

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Here it's more likely to start a squabble between them, with one declaring "Don't be so ridiculous - and grow up"

I really don't think that you should hold it in, though.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Here it's more likely to start a squabble between them, with one declaring "Don't be so ridiculous - and grow up"

People in difficult situations are often more abrasive and argumentative than those who are in a relatively trouble free place.

Don't take it to heart, all of you are struggling to cope at the moment.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Probably. I can't do force-feeding though.

If constipation is an issue there are various thing he good have on food that he wouldn't taste...if he won't take them in a drink, like fibregel sort of stuff. Psyllum husk, for example. A little goes a LONG way. Depending on the ''c'' sometimes you can't have things like honey and yogurt (my friend couldn't the year before last) and she found that difficult and interuptive to her digestion.

It must be very hard for him (no pun intended :eek:) not only to be suffering the degradation of disease but to be such a poor communicator and have health issues he might consider ''emabarrassing'' or ''dirty'' complicating the ultimate issue.

you can't force feed, but you can suggest the meals you think he'll eat most likely to be suitable. e.g. lots of summer cabage about to have as part of the veg if he is a meat and two veg type, or colcannon or bubble &sqeak, hidden roughage

SingleSue

GDB2222 wrote: »

You were safe from the lightning inside the car. The biggest risk was that the bang would make you swerve and hit something. It doesn't stop it being an extremely frightening experience if the lightning strike was that close, though. However much our rational minds may cope, our sub-concious knows for sure that lightning is dangerous.

Thankfully, the traffic was on a go slow so I wasn't doing much more than 5 mph, if that...the flash certainly blinded me for a few seconds though, it was like a thousand cameras going off all at the same time...again, thankfully, by that time the traffic had come to a complete stop and vision had been restored fully by the time it got moving again (possibly other drivers had the same problem as me, hence the complete stop!)

silvercar

SingleSue wrote: »

Thankfully, the traffic was on a go slow so I wasn't doing much more than 5 mph, if that...the flash certainly blinded me for a few seconds though, it was like a thousand cameras going off all at the same time...again, thankfully, by that time the traffic had come to a complete stop and vision had been restored fully by the time it got moving again (possibly other drivers had the same problem as me, hence the complete stop!)

Its known as flash blindness. Different people tend to react differently, some will be blinded for a few seconds others by half a minute by the same light intensity in the same surroundings.

There have been recent cases where idiots have directed flash lasers at low flying aircraft and causes temporary blindness in pilots.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

you can't force feed, but you can suggest the meals you think he'll eat most likely to be suitable. e.g. lots of summer cabage about to have as part of the veg if he is a meat and two veg type, or colcannon or bubble &sqeak, hidden roughage

There have always been eating/feeding issues, due mostly to the ASD. One individual pie on a plate, eaten with hands, is a meal.
Pie, mash, veggies, gravy on a plate, isn't a meal.


But now the pies have had to be stopped (taste funny/like cardboard) due to the changes in taste buds from the meds.

I keep suggesting stuff, and the old is starting to look for alternatives.

Veggies are never on the agenda (I've started eyeballing lovely soups and brought some in).

Meals do tend to be "just one item" though still. It's just the way meals are in odd-land.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

There have always been eating/feeding issues, due mostly to the ASD. One individual pie on a plate, eaten with hands, is a meal.
Pie, mash, veggies, gravy on a plate, isn't a meal.


But now the pies have had to be stopped (taste funny/like cardboard) due to the changes in taste buds from the meds.

I keep suggesting stuff, and the old is starting to look for alternatives.

Veggies are never on the agenda (I've started eyeballing lovely soups and brought some in).

Meals do tend to be "just one item" though still. It's just the way meals are in odd-land.

lol. I have just one thing too often, but its laziness e.g. after enthusing about summer cabbage I went and steamed some for my lunch, yum yum.

Would they eat the soup you are buying? you could blend it so it wasn't lumpy...so sort of a more cohesive one thing. If you made it at home the smell might also stimulate more apetite. You can hide alsorts of goodness in a soup.

What a bout stew? Too ''mixed'' of things?

You know, if you can get some cover from a sibling a light lunch out for your mum might be a nice treat, not somewhere fancy, just somewhere she, and you! can have more than one thing on a plate.

And some veg. poor diet is another thing that brings one down, makes it harder to cope with stress..so not great for you and either parent, besides the ill health and emotional issues.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

For those that know what it means.... one of my articles has a score of 100. Didn't expect to ever see that. 100 means = lots of traffic and popular/informative and voted up.

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