Congratulating ourselves
Last night was horrific for my DW. She had diarrhea and managed to spread it on herself and bed. The Depends held 95% which is a miracle of modern science, as they used to say.
The congratulations are to myself for helping her in the most respectful way possible. I stripped her bed and put everything in the washer. Then, I cleaned and gave her a dry, clean portion of the bed to lie.
I have never had to do this before so what did I do? I watched YouTube and a video on cleaning a person safely.
It worked and am continually amazed at what we can do for our loved ones. Even DW understood that I was going to extraordinary measures to insure her comfort and thanked me.
Congratulations to all of us for doing what is necessary and to give ourselves a lot of self-love.
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Congrats and well done.
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Good job, Comrade. It's amazing what you can find on youtube, isn't it?0
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Comrade wrote:
Comrade congratulations indeed!!! Pat yourself on the back as the expression goes. What a job, don't know if I could do that exactly, but he has accidents and a clean up is necessary. I know, You Tube is always a good source of info, amazing what's on there.. good thinking!
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