Saturday, September 16, 2017

True meaning of being a picky eater...

Mom has started this new thing with her food.  She just doesn't want most anything that she is given.  Okay, that's not new.  But, she has started pulling pieces off with her fingers.  Just little bits.  I'm sure that part is because she took out her dentures and hid them.  By the time I finally found them in the bottom of an old purse, she swears they aren't hers and refuses to wear them.   I think part of it is that she can't bite anything.

The new part is that each piece that she pulls off, she asks what she should do with it. She will pick the perimeter and continue around the edges until she has a circle left.  If we are lucky enough that she eats some of it, she then complains that someone is stealing her food.  She cries that it is disappearing. "Look at how small it is now! Who would take it from me like that?"   She refuses to eat throughout and will only occasionally pick a piece and actually put it in her mouth. 

On the rare occasions that she does eat most of it, she will always save a bite sized piece from the center and save it.  She will not eat all of anything.  There always has to be something left.  Always.

I think we are finally entering the final stage of this cruelty.  If it progresses as it has to this point, we should only have to deal with this for a couple of years.    

 

04/17/12

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