Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

GDB2222

tomterm8 wrote: »

What kind of carer? If it's a registered nurse it will cost a lot of money, if it is a bogstandard carer sort it doesn't need to. Agency carers work for around £8 per hour (the agency gets a lot of the money you pay them), and you'd be offering food and board.

I don't think this is a position for one person, though. You'd really need two people.

And there are risk implications to this scenario that are kind of obvious, because you're leaving a vulnerable individual in the care of someone alone for that length of time. How you get around that I don't know.

Thank you. I will pass those comments on. The carer DW has in mind previously cared for someone we know, and she comes very highly recommended.

zagubov

Wheezy wrote: »

Those Belgians...tsk!

Happy New Year Wheezy! And Burns night and Australia Day! We've saved you some haggis as well as platypus pie or whatever they eat in Oz.:beer:

Wheezy_2

zagubov wrote: »

Happy New Year Wheezy! And Burns night and Australia Day! We've saved you some haggis as well as platypus pie or whatever they eat in Oz.:beer:

Thanks Zag, but it's me, your neighbour Wheezy!
I've got no links to Oz, have no idea when Australia day is and never eaten platypus pie. (although I'd like to try) :cheesy:

lostinrates

Wheezy wrote: »

Thanks Zag, but it's me, your neighbour Wheezy!
I've got no links to Oz, have no idea when Australia day is and never eaten platypus pie. (although I'd like to try) :cheesy:

But you haven't been here for a while........so you've missed all the special events.

Wheezy_2

lostinrates wrote: »

But you haven't been here for a while........so you've missed all the special events.

Yes, sorry...I know.
(is there even such a thing as platypus pie?)
Been busy lately... The good news is that mum got a retirement flat, and that's such a relief.:)
So I had to spend some time there to empty the parental home, help with the move and sell the house.
Work was very accommodating and I could work out of the Belgian office of the company I work for.
So...not much time for the nice peoples, but still love you all!

Doozergirl

Hello Wheezy

Any doggy pictures for us?

Spirit_2

I am not convinced that all odd eating is about what parents influence.

As an infant DD ate everything although drank very little cows milk. As a small child she excluded, butter/cream, chips, most red meat, fish except smoked salmon, green veg and lettuce. She added in goats cheese.

It is as if she was naturally veering away from some foods that were high cholesterol - so I did not press her to eat them, that some veg were a casualty of her choices was OK to me. I would cook her chicken if we had red meat, smuggle milk into hot chocolate and hide more veg in soup. I am overweight and have tended to be plump and make poor food choices from my late 20's, so I noticed her preferences developing and supported her good decisions and keeping an eye on veg. Only thing I would have liked to do differently is for her to have had more milk

As an adult she has added back some lean red meat, very occasional chips, lentils, occasional Tuna. A bit more milk in occasional cereal. She has not taken up coffee or alcohol - a glass of something or a cocktail a couple of times a year is about it.

It feels as if her 'body' determines her diet.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I am not convinced that all odd eating is about what parents influence.
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It feels as if her 'body' determines her diet.

I have very different tastes to my sister, whose favourite meat is pheasant (I'd happily never eat it again. Totally different ones to RP........totally different , and somewhat different o non RP.


I think individuals have tastes but that they ARE culturally influenced and influenced by home.

E.g. I'm sure there is an o
D saying about the right soup recipe being your mothers or grandmothers, noone else's?


Sadly, eating disorders are more likely to appear in daughters of mothers who have had eating disorders. .

Nikkster

Spirit wrote: »

She has not taken up coffee or alcohol

Fear not, I expect I take care of her allowance.

Ok, it could be a little broader, but her diet doesn't sound too bad to me - at least she's not just eating pizza/ chicken nuggets etc and no veg.

Wheezy_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

Hello Wheezy

Any doggy pictures for us?

Doggy always happy to pose. Doggy needs a treat now.



Doggy on his favourite drain cover. Nice and warm.