It’s all a blur, this life of mine. Moments, days, weeks, months – maybe soon years, who knows? – roll into each other. I don’t like it one bit, sorry not sorry.
I may not be able to fully lay the blame on my current care home with its chaotic and yet oh so boring routine and no day activities whatsoever. I might be able to create my own routine that would somehow differentiate between mornings and evenings, weekdays and weekends, summer and winter. If only I knew how.
This post was written for this week’s Six Sentence Stories link-up, for which the prompt word is “blur”.
A Multitude of Musings 
I thought this move was supposed to be agood one😳
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It was supposed to be indeed, but it didn’t turn out that way.
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I like how you described life in a care home as “chaotic and yet oh so boring routine”.
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It’s not that way in all care homes. My old care home was different. At least we had day activities there during the week and, though I didn’t go to the day center for those, at least I knew by my day schedule when it was a weekday or weekend. My current home is an intensive support home, so all clients have significant challenging behavior. Most clients are also at least 20 years older dan me, so mid-50s or older, and have absolutely no sense of routine whatsoever. The staff claim this means neither can they.
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I’m so sorry this care home is chaotic and boring, both. I can see how the days would blur together in that circumstance.
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Thank you. I’m hoping that, if I can at some point go to a day center during the day on weekdays, I can escape the boredom and chaos. So far though, the powers-that-be have decided it’s best if I stay in the home.
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I hope things improve there for you. Your ideas are good, to develop routines that synch with seasons, and maybe someone there can help you figure out how.
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I’m not sure. I do have a day schedule, but it’s the exact same everyday and my staff say it’s not possible to make different day schedules for, say, weekends (like I used to have at my old care home). With respect to the seasons, I might be able to do that, but not sure.
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I agree with D, Astrid. I also read the description of circumstances at your comments.
I have to say though, that the answer they gave you of being “not possible” is just an excuse…not profitable seems their reasoning.
Still, I hope you find a way to a place with a less cookie cutter approach.
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I hope so too. Thank you for your supportive comment.
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I can understand why you’re regretting your decision to move here. They should be more proactive and engage you and others in daily activities.
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Well, they claim my fellow clients have absolutely no sense of a routine whatsoever and are too old to learn (mid-50s or older), but at least involve me. I know, my current day schedule is better than none at all.
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If you talk to them, will it help?
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Talk to whom? The staff? I’ve tried countless times, but they keep telling me I’m not the only one who lives here and so they can’t make a day structure revolve around me. I understand but if this means hardly any day structure whatsoever, I think this isn’t the right place for me.
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Yes that seems to be right. You need a place where they can give at least some routine.
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I have to interject here, as, one is never to old to learn.
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I know. The staff probably mean they aren’t motivated to learn and the staff can’t legally enforce any type of day structure on them. Which may be true to an extent, in that for instance they can’t physically drag the clients out of bed at 8:30AM to go to the day center, but in my experience, it’s more staff convenience that means we have no general day structure whatsoever.
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That sounds incredibly frustrating. I hope that things either improve or you find a better home.
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Thanks so much. I really hope so too.
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