A fine line

 Thank you all for comments on the last post.  Husband doesn't have full-on dementia (yet!), but his cognitive impairment has certainly got worse over the past few months.  I walk a very fine line between curbing his worst excesses, and emasculating him completely.  He is still fairly self aware and does know what's happening to him, but chooses not to dwell on it - in fact he hardly mentions it, other than ruefully admitting his memory is terrible.

It's difficult, very difficult sometimes, to try and get him to do something, and especially to stop him doing something, without treating him like a child - which he understandably gets annoyed about.  Trying to reason with him to get him to do, or stop doing, things is very problematical at times, he flies off the handle very quickly nowadays (something he never did before) and can be extremely stubborn, I'm walking on tenterhooks sometimes.

Having said all that, he hasn't actually spent any money for over a week now, so I think his recent obsession with ebay has come to an end for the moment, no doubt it'll start back up at some point.  His current fixation is fiddling with the shower - again - every time I get in it he's altered the controls and I have to put them back to where they were.  I've not said anything, it's only a minor irritation and he'll soon get over it.

Today I'm making a chicken and mushroom pie and a couple of cheese & onion pasties, both to be frozen to take with us if we do manage to have the holiday.  And that'll be all the food prepped and frozen.  All I'll need to do next week in the way of cooking for the hol is to make some dog food to also be frozen.  Betty's favourite homemade food is minced beef, carrot and sweet potato, I add in a couple of crumbled weetabix, an egg and a spoonful of low salt yeast extract melted in a little hot water, she wolfs it down.

Getting washing out will be a bit hit and miss for the next few days, showers are forecast pretty much every day, so the washing will probably have to go on the airer in the car port.  At the moment it's bright sunshine but is also raining, so I expect there's a rainbow nearby.