One of the other caregivers on the site presented a perfect question… What grosses you out the most? There were some great stories, the gray hairs in the toothbrush being one of the best… my reply?
” Oh you guys are lightweights on the gross-out chart… My mom has dementia AND an illiostomy bag… you just cant imagine the fixes we get in with that thing. One day she filled it with green food coloring – of course throwing me into a fit of concern then cracking up – she was the serious one in the family! Another time she stubbornly refused to let me put it on saying there was no reason to cover up her belly button with that “horrible plastic thing”. As they do, the stoma started dripping out. “Oh good Lord in Heaven, what the hell is that?” asked my extremely proper mother. I let out a poorly stifled snicker and she looked at it again. ”Poop! quick! quick! Stop the poop!”, That was the fastest bag-job I ever did – a true miracle considering I could hardly breathe I was laughing so hard.”
Here is another funny aging commentary from one of the folks at Home Instead Senior Care.
