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Originally posted by Thistle Cove Farm:
has gone to stay with her daughter for a few months and we're (the three of us...MIL, Dave and I) are getting a much needed break from each other.

Unfortunately, it's taken the daughter only a month to get to the point where I was in a year and a half. We got a phone call Friday and both mother and daughter were just frantic. As a matter of fact, so were Dave and I...our furnace was broken and we didn't have heat and it was COLD and getting colder. It was difficult to make that understood though so we all ended up speaking much too sharply, much too loudly and getting hurt feelings all 'round. Not good.

A rehetorical question...*why* is caring for an elderly person SO stressful???

At least we're getting a few months off from care giving duties. That's a gift.
So the daughter is frustrated???? Let her be. On the other hand, maybe she doesn't have the temperament for this.

My sister and cousin (there are three grandchildren on my mom's side) both said they wouldn't have lasted three minutes with my grandmother.