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<blockquote data-quote="totoro" data-source="post: 339780" data-attributes="member: 3155"><p>Listen to the others! I have watched my mother in law try to gloss over and make everything perfect for her Daddy... lying and "making" things work for him. They let him trade his car in for the cash for clunkers!!! He CAN'T drive! But she was too scared to tell him and would not ask or talk to the Doctor about it...</p><p>Now he has these fantasies about how it is going to be.. </p><p></p><p>I know you are not as "dumb" as my mother in law is acting. But it is so easy to feel sorry for them. Let the Doctor be the bad guy.</p><p></p><p>WHen I was in Physical Therapy, I would have say a hip replacement patient. I would sit with the family (I was the grunt in training!) I would say very loudly and to the patient everything that the family had asked me and that the elderly person had not been doing. </p><p>I could be firm with them and lay it out honestly with no family ca-ca. </p><p>It was so much easier than the Daughter or Niece having to nag them and then deal with all of the other stuff as well. </p><p>I could let them know that the family were the GOOD guys. </p><p></p><p>You are an Angel!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="totoro, post: 339780, member: 3155"] Listen to the others! I have watched my mother in law try to gloss over and make everything perfect for her Daddy... lying and "making" things work for him. They let him trade his car in for the cash for clunkers!!! He CAN'T drive! But she was too scared to tell him and would not ask or talk to the Doctor about it... Now he has these fantasies about how it is going to be.. I know you are not as "dumb" as my mother in law is acting. But it is so easy to feel sorry for them. Let the Doctor be the bad guy. WHen I was in Physical Therapy, I would have say a hip replacement patient. I would sit with the family (I was the grunt in training!) I would say very loudly and to the patient everything that the family had asked me and that the elderly person had not been doing. I could be firm with them and lay it out honestly with no family ca-ca. It was so much easier than the Daughter or Niece having to nag them and then deal with all of the other stuff as well. I could let them know that the family were the GOOD guys. You are an Angel! [/QUOTE]
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