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I submit this question simply with honesty. After caring for both MIL and FIL for two years..........the thing that gags me is "teeth." Yes, worse than poop for me. My FIL (now deceased) had false teeth. He would pry them from his mouth dripping with saliva and hand them to me. Sure, I put gloves on, etc...but for some reason those teeth really triggered my gag reflex.
Now my MIL is unable to brush her teeth and I have to do it.. or things get really stinky. It is the hardest thing I do. Anyone else comment on one particular thing that she/he finds "stomach upsetting"?

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I'm beginning to think that the only way to clean up some people is to go into the bathroom with them and just spray them down with a hand held flexible shower hose. Hopefully they would then be willing to remove wet clothes (which can then be washed), and you wipe up the bathroom afterwards. Next time they either cooperate or get sprayed again. I know how terrible this sounds, but don't you wish you could just put them thru something like a carwash and they would come out clean, dry, and shiny?
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The stench of mothballs and urine. MIL scatters mothballs around like a vampire hunter scatters holy water. Her 90-year-old alcoholic live-in boyfriend provides the urine stench.
I have a very keen sense of smell, and it's enough to gag a maggot. If MIL ever decides to marker her own personal line of perfume, it should be called Eau du Nuit du Mothballs and Urine.
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Toenails,..... Yuck!
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After I wrote toenails I went and clipped my Mom's.. I though I was going to puke.. I just hate touching or being touched by feet...

OMG if my husbands feet touch me while in bed!!! I can't stand it.. He knows not to put them near me..
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Mucus !!!! I can clean toenails, clean up puke and pooh... change urine soaked diapers, but mucus, great big globs of mucus send me running.....
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Vomit - all that glutinous wobbly liquid just makes my stomach heave. Thank goodness mom only did that twice while bedridden. It soaked all over her, clothes, skin, bedding, etc...
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i visited my aunt today and she asked me to trim the bangs out of her eyes again . now the last time i did this the roommate narced me out and pia went all spastic on me . next visit ( tomorrow ) ill be packing my scissors and toenail snips in my pocket . edna trimmed my hair and toenails 50 yrs ago and im happy to do the same for her now . the nurses dont care , they know pia is bout half nuts . one of em told me today that altho edna and i have been grounded by pia , my visits clearly bring edna to life . i looked her straight in the eyes and told her " make no mistake , were gonna blow this mf one of these days " . no hearing or comprehension problems existed . she knows exactly what im sayin . on the proper beautiful spring morning edna and i are out of there for a couple of hours . im an honest person, i dont want them to feel betrayed when it happens . pia is overstepping her authority since edna has not been declared incompetant , nh just dont want to interfere with pia , she signs the checks ( so to speak ) .
im the vlad putin of family carers . shake your right hand and smile and shiv ya in the brain stem with my left . ( so to speak )
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Drool and snot. Go figure. I can handle the poo, the puke, the teeth, know how to breath through my mouth and avoid the stinky stuff ... I can even handle wounds (as long as they're not bleeding). But drool just makes my stomach retch.
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Finding my Mom cleaning out the litter box with my cooking utensils. I know you can wash them but still.....yuck.
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The dictionary definition of the word hate: 1. To feel animosity or hostility toward. 2. To detest. 3. To feel dislike or distaste for.
Personally, I admire the person that has a " hate" but who has the guts to get up each day, face the object of hate, put the hate aside and complete the task to make someones life better. Thank goodness for these folks!
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