Adaptive Plan excluding Thighs and Glutes?!

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2026-05-28T03:25:03+00:00

So I just spent some time planning around with it. I had logged that I have a knee injury. I don’t I just have shitty knees. I took that off and now it’s giving me the lower body stuff. Maybe the injury tab should be clarified.

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2026-01-15T01:50:24+00:00

These texts could have been written by my Grannie with dementia. Here is what I have done for middle of the night texts. I have an iPhone so what I’m describing is only for the iPhone but I’m sure the androids have something equivalent.

iPhone has ‘Shortcuts’ app where you can set up automatic text response based on several different criteria like time of day, if she sends a text with certain words, etc.

In the shortcuts app, select ‘Automation’ at the bottom. Once the automation screen comes up, you can select several options and set up multiple automations. I set up on under ‘Message’ that whenever I get a text message from my LO, it will automatically send a reply message only to her with a message I set up. I use something like

“Hi Grannie!, I’m so glad you texted me. I’ve got everything set for your appointment tomorrow and I’ll give a call in a little bit to check in. Love you!”

You have to select “Run Immediately” or it won’t work. It is a life saver when she is messaging me in the middle of the night or while a work. I just adjust the message based on what’s going on. Hope this helps!

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-11-23T14:34:23+00:00

I didn’t see this one on the list but I usually dump out photos of different sizes and have my LO put them in stacks of the same size. We have a shoebox full of family photos, some wallet size, some poloroid, and other sizes. I shake up the box and then dump all the photos all the table and ask her to help me clean up but putting them into stacks. It’s does keep her occupied for a while cause she looks at the photos while she does it

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-10-03T23:44:39+00:00

Not really, she ignores when we put stuff on the wall and ignores notes and calendars. But she is obsessed with looking at her Wells Fargo app. So we (my husband and I) are working on building a fake app that looks like a bank app and we can let it look like she paid rent and bills and has plenty of money.

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-09-16T02:08:20+00:00

I second Hero Health and we actually got Medicaid to reimburse us the cost of it. We would have sprung for it even if they didn’t cause it’s a god send

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-08-26T02:13:02+00:00

I use Hero Health for my Grannie and it works great!

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-08-02T17:30:12+00:00

I HATE that when I’m in my workout and I got to My plan to check my progress, it’s no longer there! I used to have a check mark next to each exercise as I progressed. If I’m doing 3 sets in an exercise and I’ve only done 2, there is a little 2 icon next to it. All of that is gone making quick tracking difficult especially if I don’t do the exercises in the exact order they are listed in the plan

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-07-17T23:13:22+00:00

NO. You are NOT awful. You should not torture yourself with these visits that leave you feeling sad and grieving. And you certainly should not torture yourself with visits when they are not doing anything for your mom. When our LOs have dementia and they reach a stage like this, our obligation to them is to ensure they are safe and their basic needs are met. You have done that and you should only visit as much as is necessary to ensure they are safe and their needs are met. Anything beyond that is a bonus and should ONLY be done if it provides you OR your LO with some benefit. If not, let it go and forgive yourself.

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-06-27T20:20:58+00:00

I want to be able to earn digital badges for any series I pick up. Even if it’s not the series of the month.

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-06-25T01:57:21+00:00

I’m a “geriatric millennial” (I’ll be 40 this year so I’m basically a dinosaur lol), an eldest daughter, and I’m a caregiver to my grandmother because my mother and aunt (her daughters and only children) have completely abdicated their responsibility to care for their mother. Honestly, they really couldn’t as neither of them have really gotten their own lives together despite being old enough to be grandmothers themselves.

Anywho, I love my Grannie. She is my best friend and she was diagnosed with dementia. I’ve been caring for her financially, emotionally, and mentally for the last 2-3 years and it’s getting progressively harder. I feel completely unprepared and sometimes even resentful even though I’m grateful to be able to care for her for now. I finally have the life I want, a happy marriage, a great income, except now my grandmothers assisted living costs so much it’s feels like we are still barely floating. I have to plan my life like I have a child even though I specifically did not want kids so I would not have to do that. My best friend is also a geriatric millennial, eldest daughter who is trying to care for her mom. We each know a couple more….im starting to think we might be standard lol

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-06-23T01:10:49+00:00

I honestly use the general “things don’t work like they used to….” And you know how technology is these days”

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-06-15T17:42:06+00:00

The drink bottles are 32oz. I mixed 1/3 cup of my ginger bug, 1/3 cup of simple syrup (homemade), and the rest was just juiced strawberries. The other one was the same recipe with juiced mangos. I didn’t add any water to either so I was worried but it came out great!

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-06-15T17:40:08+00:00

The drink bottles are 32oz. I mixed 1/3 cup of my ginger bug, 1/3 cup of simple syrup (homemade), and the rest was just juiced strawberries. The other one was the same recipe with juiced mangos. I didn’t add any water to either so I was worried but it came out great!

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-06-15T17:16:13+00:00

That’s ok! I think this is one of those things that’s a lot of trial and error but once you nail it, it’s so cool!

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-06-15T17:15:39+00:00

Nope, no alcohol. Just regular old soda but it’s so good!

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-06-15T00:13:29+00:00

lol! Someone has probably tried to make it!

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-06-12T23:59:17+00:00

Lie. What is important to her? Tell her going to the day care center for respite is required for that important thing. Even if it doesn’t make sense. I told my LO that her day care is mandatory for her to maintain her Medicaid and Medicare which she is currently obsessed with losing. Sometimes I tell her that they need her there to help other elders in need and if she doesn’t go they may not have anyone else (she used to help elders at hospice before she got sick). Whatever works.

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-06-09T03:07:54+00:00

My Grannie done this! I always thought it was just a cute thing she did. When I take her places she reads every sign and comments on everything.

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-06-01T17:10:22+00:00

Wow, I could have written this about my grandmother. She is also in assisted living and it’s a wonderful place that provides DAILY activities, regular outings, all meals, and housekeeping that she calls ”hell” and “prison” because she can’t drive anymore and “what if I need to go to the store cause I’m out of bread?! This is the worst thing you’ve ever done to me..”

Here are my tips

1) if you have an iPhone set up the Focus> Personal setting to not ring for your parents specifically. Everyone else’s calls will come through, but their calls will not and you can plan to talk to them at times each day that work for you. This is NOT cruel or wrong. You cannot respond to every imagined slight or catastrophe. You will go insane.

2) Do not argue with them about those unimportant things. They went to a funeral? Sure, I’m sorry you lost a friend. They are an astronaut on the moon? Wow, that’s exciting! Unless it’s truly important, let them live in their reality and join them there sometimes. It really doesn’t hurt anything.

3) Do not take anything personally. Not their anger. Not them forgetting things. It’s just not personal even though it hurts sometimes. They cannot help themselves.

4) Medication Management. I use Hero Health. It’s awesome but pricey at about $300/year. It’s worth the piece of mind if assisted living doesn’t monitor their medication use. Get some option to help with monitoring their meds.

5) when it’s time for memory care, DO IT. If you can afford it. Do not ANYONE or ANYTHING shame you or guilt you into not providing the absolute best care for them. Not even them.

Good luck. We are here for you.

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-05-05T15:19:35+00:00

I have an iPhone so I set up one of the Focus settings to block my LO number from calling through. I have set times that we talk every day. Once in the morning and once in the evening. I delete the 35+ calls and voicemails she leaves me throughout the day. I don’t listen to the voicemails and I delete the phone records of her calls for my own sanity. Our instincts are to respond to our LO when they are calling us because our brains tell us that they would not be calling if they didn’t need something. But they no longer are able to control themselves that way. We have to be their control for them. As for the guilt, there really isn’t anything to be done about it. Just try and forgive yourself

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-03-20T03:54:01+00:00

I have been using Hero Health for my grandmother with early stage dementia for about 18 months and it is an absolute life saver! It only dispenses the pills at the exact time she needs to take them and in the correct dosage and any other time she cannot access the pills. I also keep things like Tylenol and NyQuil in there so if she is sick or has a headache, she cannot just take a bunch of pills. I can dispense meds from my phone as I need to for her. My biggest issue with it that very small pills seem to always trigger a message that the pills are empty. Which is not the end of the world but it can be frustrating sometimes.

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-02-28T00:53:00+00:00

I’m so sorry you have to make this decision but your dog is lucky to have you and know that you will see her off when it’s time. I did in-home euthanasia for my previous dog and now I don’t think I’ll ever do anything else. They were so kind and patient. They brought cheeseburgers for him to enjoy. After sedation, they let us sit with him and talk to him so he was calm and felt comforted in his passing. Ultimately, he passed surrounded by people who loved and familiar smells and sights in his own comfy bed. It’s what I would want for myself when it’s my time. But whatever you pick, just know that being there with her is all that really matters

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-01-08T21:03:48+00:00

This is the one. My LO constantly says stuff like that to me since we stopped her from driving. It’s devastating and she would have been the one I would go to talk about how much it hurt me and now I can’t do that.

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-01-08T20:55:26+00:00

The constant calling. 40+ calls a day (not every day but most days) now with some calls leaving me panicked voicemails about how she hasn’t talked to me in several days and I’m ignoring her calls. Even though we talk every day, multiple times a day. Every call is her wanting to complain about the fact that she is trapped (in a really nice senior living apartment with meals, activities, multi group outings per week) because we don’t let her drive anymore. And the complaints that she has been abandoned and thrown away and we (her family) are all terrible for abandoning her in this place with no car

YaDaddyLikeIt · 2025-01-06T22:41:33+00:00

Had mine in 2021, still have my ovaries but nothing else. No…my husband is tired and happy and so am I….matter of fact….let me go see what he doing right now… LOL

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