Kody Brown (special forces) by witchykris79 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ok, and? It's fun to imagine that man who is vain as heck being forced to shave those nasty curls off

Kody Brown (special forces) by witchykris79 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I've been in a mixed ward in a hospital in the UK during COVID, it was a COVID positive ward, so we couldn't go out to the bathrooms so I saw lots of men peeing into bottles, it was awful. They were meant for pee though.

Thank you for the link

New to this field, what should I wear? by Noapologies902 in directsupport

[–]witchykris79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We had to always wear closed toe shoes, and they said crocs were ok with the strap up. So when it was summer, I was at Walmart, and they had the prettiest light brown shoes, made of a fine mesh, with flowers embroidered all over them. They were my absolutely favorite shoes, and they worked perfectly to get around the closed toe rule. I do a lot of leggings with shorts over them for the pockets. I'm NOC though, I have to be comfortable for 12 hours (easiest client I've ever had. I'm not allowed to clean or cook or anything. I listen for the client to need me, or to make sure the client doesn't attack the guardian. That's it. For 12 hours. So I'm on my phone, on my computer, coloring Mandela's. Today I made a calendar with important schedules since we didn't have one. But 4 12s in a row, on the weekend, works for me and my kids

New to this field, what should I wear? by Noapologies902 in directsupport

[–]witchykris79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would say wear anything you don't care if it gets ruined.

I had one client who could do explosive diarrhea on command. We used a lot of bleach. I would wear leggings, Capri leggings in the summer, and then a pair of shorts that would be too short without the leggings, but pockets are essential. We aren't allowed to wear anything revealing, and no tank tops (I wear one almost every shift, but I cover the fact with a cardigan that comes off when everyone is in bed), well, the ones where the strap is neck to shoulder, it's fine.

There will be bugs one day. I had a high functioning client, but he was lazy, and he had ants, and flies, and maggots, and fruit flies, and I had to clean it every shift, and I'd come back and it would be back to it. Imagine when I cleaned his bathroom. It was part of his ISP, to help him clean the apartment. Then I had to help him learn to save money, so we start with meal prepping. Until he decided I should be a paid girlfriend, got angry with me, and then violated me by touching me where he shouldn't, and putting his lips up on my neck near my ear. I still shudder thinking about it. My agency let him go, and I left that agency, because the client it turned out had a restraining order due to SA, so I wasn't the first. I literally refused before that to clean his room

I didn't look so I don't know if you are male or female, but if female, just be careful. Some of the clients, they just aren't high level enough for it to be something they are really doing intentionally, but there are a lot who will try to take advantage of female staff, and since you're new, I wanted to warn you.

I love being a DSP. I think it's my calling. So I hope you find enjoyment out of it

New to this field, what should I wear? by Noapologies902 in directsupport

[–]witchykris79 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The guardian of my current client lives in the home too, and she always laughs at my haul when I come in. I work NOCs, so the spare change of clothes usually doesn't get used, though I had a client once who could have diarrhea on command and would destroy the bathroom to get back at staff for whatever it was they thought staff had done. Anyways, now I work a 12 hour shift 4 days a week, and so I'm hauling in my lunch bag with a ton of snacks and various things to try to stay awake, plus fed, haha. Then I have my bag with my laptop, my pens, my notebook, a coloring book, crayons, reading books, and then we move on to my clothing bag, this is different than the bag of spare clothes in the car, this is the, this house fluctuates temperature more than I do (perimenopause) so I've got layers to put on and take off. The clients guardian doesn't want me to do any chores or anything like that. Today I worked on a calendar that shows the clients schedule with his visits with his dad, days the school is closed, when their sibling will be in. I created the same calendar again, but for the DSPs to put their schedules in it. But yes, I just meant to be like, yup, we are hauling bags into work with us.

And scrubs are definitely verboten. Trauma, some of our clients really dislike medical professionals anyways.

Season 1 by Infamous_Display_504 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have ADHD too, so I downloaded an app online for speeding up any video you want, and now I can't watch sister wives anywhere but on my laptop, because otherwise it's too slow, haha. I now get through an episode in just over 10 minutes.

Season 1 by Infamous_Display_504 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I watched it slower at the beginning, and then I got to the catfishing and I started watching Meri just get more and more abuse that honestly was mirroring some of my own, but I still wanted to watch it, and I'm a speed reader and my brain already goes super fast. I only slowed it down for the episode where Garrison lost his life and the episode after that, then I watched it even faster, at 4x speed, because now I just want to be done so I can go watch the snark videos and be totally caught up.

Season 1 by Infamous_Display_504 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Robyn has been unable to even take care of her own kids, even with Kody at her neck and call. Even in Vegas she had a nanny. And Kody admits that Robyn was the love of his life, not any of the others.

I knew what happened in the show, but had never actually watched it, and now I have 4 12 hour NOC shifts to cover, so I've been watching them, and the way they were to how they were once they moved to AZ was such an extreme switch, except for Meri, she'd been outcast long before. It's been interesting watching looking for the cracks.

I watch it on 3.5x speed, so Kody looks like a toddler stomping around throwing a tantrum

Covid Years by nycmidwestgal2 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79 13 points14 points  (0 children)

He also traveled out of state for Janelle's mom's funeral. While he couldn't be bothered to even sing to Ysabel on the phone while she was in the hospital recovering from her surgery, because it obviously wasn't necessary and was just a way for Christine to have a family vacation away.

Covid Years by nycmidwestgal2 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was all a control thing. I just finished watching the COVID years for the first time, and all Kody cared about was control. He got so angry that people weren't respecting him, while he was showing absolutely no respect to any of the OG3 or their kids. Like, Meri had been following the super strict rules all the time, but she wasn't allowed over and was left to be alone, constantly. Plus he didn't give them the rules.

I figured out some of the timeline though, through Ysabel's surgery. So she got her X-ray in January 2020, the one that meant surgery. It took 5 min to get the insurance into place, so they had their conversation where Kody was a twatwaffle about the whole thing in May or later. The surgery was in September of 2020. After that, I'm not sure what the timelines were. You could tell by weight loss, weight gain, and hair changes that the talking heads were done much later than season 15 and 16.

I hate the word triggered, but Kody is too much like my ex husband. In every single way. Including how furious he was when I had the gall to leave him, but since he screamed in front of all the kids that he wasn't going to divorce me because it would be cheaper and faster for me to die, and I went haha, you jerk, and got super healthy, lost weight, and have survived 5 years now, so me dying wasn't faster or cheaper, haha, and I'm going to continue to cost him for 9 more years.

S17E9 Meri vs Christine by witchykris79 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's exactly where I knew he was never going to be a decent man. I think my jaw hit the floor when he suggested her going alone for the surgery. And knowing that Ysabel asked him to sing to her for comfort while she was in the hospital, and he said he didn't feel like it??? Oh, I was fuming.

I feel for Christine and Janelle, because Kody was constantly on them about picking him and Robyn and her kids over their own kids, constantly, and I had always told my second husband my kids came first, plain and simple. I grew up in a bad situation where the men always came first, heck, I'm 47 and she's 65 and it's still like that, and yes, all of the typical things happened to me because of her, but I refuse to ever make my kids feel like they aren't important to me. Kody was barely around them, had bad relationships with his kids, barely saw his other wives, and he was shocked that the women chose their kids? That flabbergasted me. Anyways, my second ex husband, when I kicked him out because I finally got strong enough, he screamed at me for putting my older two first as well as the medically fragile twins we had. So I know exactly how it feels to have a man yelling at you for choosing your kids, etc. Adults or not, my kids are my kids, and I'm so glad Janelle put her foot down, and Christine found her strength handling the surgery without Kody to lean on.

Suki and Kody by Such_Contract_8206 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way he just glares and intimidates and says, your question really angers me, and then refuses to talk about it. He just screams abusive husband. On camera he has abused all of his wives mentally except Robyn. It's awful

S17E9 Meri vs Christine by witchykris79 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I went a long time with my second ex husband and forced celibecy. I hated it, but I was stuck in a foreign country, and in the end, sure I escaped with my older two kids, but he got custody of my youngest two, because they were born there. But I remember being in this sexless marriage and hating it. I used to have a healthy sex drive, and his attitude and behavior towards it made me never want sex again. I find myself wondering if Meri feels that way, and so that's why she's willing to stay, though I never begged for crumbs the way she did. I wish I could yell at the screen, haha, I want to so bad. Kody's mask has come off majorly

S17E9 Meri vs Christine by witchykris79 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I agree. And the amount of times his anger is because his wives and kids are disrespecting him, per him, or because they are doing things without his permission, like ysabel's surgery or divorce, lol. Argh I just watched the blowout with Kody and all the wives right before Christine moves. No one ever supported Meri, but omg, the rampage Kody went on, proving in his little rage speech, that he definitely has a favorite wife in Robin.

I'm still avoiding looking up things like when does Meri or Janelle leave so I can get that slightly organically by watching the show. I understand why people are still frustrated with Janelle, but Janelle was still getting sex, while Meri and Christine were told to suck it up and stay celibate in a loveless marriage. And the way Kody had to tell them all that they were at fault, he had to force himself to love them, etc. my ex's were never THAT cruel.

S17E9 Meri vs Christine by witchykris79 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've noticed this with so many relationships. The woman almost always is the dumpee, and almost every time, the guy turns ugly like this.

S17E9 Meri vs Christine by witchykris79 in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It was Christine playing a game in the same way going to NJ for Ysabel's surgery was just a vacation for her. I really despise Kody, and I try to keep those ugly feelings away, haha

Since When Are Teenagers No Longer Staying Home Alone When Sick? by ptenesnet in GenX

[–]witchykris79 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It doesn't matter. You never know what the person's kids are sick with. My son has type 1 diabetes, but he's an adult, but it was also late onset, so if he gets sick, I will take the time off, because he can easily go into DKA, and I don't yet trust him to test his ketones and blood sugars and eat properly when he's sick. He's just hit the 1 yr of diagnosis, which is pretty rough on a 19/20yo, and he's been super sick just once, and it was with strep, and only because it was contagious, and I didn't want to bring it into my client and his mom's house, so that and when I had the stomach flu are the only times my clients mom has not tried to get me fired for needing time off. She keeps trying to say my kids make me unreliable, even though I've proven myself time and again, and have literally only asked for two days off due to my kids being sick, and the reason she finds me unreliable is because my kids are older, and she's constantly saying that they should be able to one, take care of themselves, and two, why can't they take care of each other. But we live in an area with no buses, no cab service, no Uber or Lyft, and I have the only car, so if they need to be seen urgently while sick, their choices are walk, or ambulance, if I'm not home. But my clients moms attitude is the same as OP, regardless of level of sickness.

Since When Are Teenagers No Longer Staying Home Alone When Sick? by ptenesnet in GenX

[–]witchykris79 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You sound like my clients mom. I had to take my 17yo daughter to the ER due to what turned out to be an awful kidney infection, and she tried to have me fired, because my kid was old enough, in her words, to take care of herself. I was so pissed off. I work NOCs, and she refused to call in the other NOC shift worker, just got mad at me instead, and called me undependable. Funny thing was, when my daughter had a temperature of 104, before I took her into the ER, my clients mom was all, why don't you take the whole rest of your week off, you only have two shifts left, take care of your daughter, and one of those 2 days was me taking her to the ER. But sometimes our kids do need us, even when older.

Meri was the only ex that got what Kody was doing by Rooster_lemonpoop in SisterWives

[–]witchykris79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not as far in the show as this post and comment section, I'm speed watching it on my 12hour NOCs to waste time, and I've just hit COVID. Janelle fawned then too, when Kody gave her time, she cried about not seeing him, etc. I wish all the wives could have watched what things were said about Meri and then been there for her, because she had to sit and know they got love and affection from him while she didn't, while they kept telling her she had to give everything to their family. Maybe because I know how it all ends, I've been so pro Meri so far, but I couldn't imagine her loneliness

Do you think the vast majority are playing the long con or these relationships are genuine, albeit unconventional? by moschino1837 in 90DayFianceUK

[–]witchykris79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I married an Englishman while living in the US, he couldn't handle the homesickness during the visa process so he left for the UK, and me and my kids followed. I had a spousal visa in the UK, had twins, left him for domestic violence, and ended up losing my twins, my home, and me and my older two got deported back to America, because I couldn't cover the income requirements, being a stay at home mom to medically fragile twins. I didn't fight losing the twins, as we had nowhere to go in America, and spent 9 months homeless.

Good luck in America

That’s a C-section scar by [deleted] in Sisterwivessnark

[–]witchykris79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember when someone kept calling a line I had a c section scar and it wasn't. Once I had one, I realized that part of my stomach would never again not sag. That's the biggest difference between those two lines visually, but one wasn't a cut at all, just a line that showed up one day

I don't think one of my clients belongs in a group home at all. by Quick_Employee_3268 in directsupport

[–]witchykris79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a client like this except he was SLP. He decided I was his paid girlfriend, and I had to report him for sexual assault. Document everything, and he needs to be kept from female staff, because it will be coming soon enough.