Fair warning, barfing emotion and gross stuff to come.
He is not all there anymore. He has come to live out his last days with us. I don't know how long that will be, but he's 86 and has massive congestive heart failure, and it probably won't be more than a year or so.
Anyway, he is still ambulatory, but barely. But he's wearing disposables most of the time (he has a terrible bout of the runs and messes in his shorts every time he wears his underwear, like today), and his thinking is increasingly confused.
I use a dry pail, and I guess you know where this is going. I don't use a pail liner and have a front loader, so I'm hand-emptying the diapers into the FL and I come across one of his soiled diapers!
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He had carefully rinsed it out (in the bathroom sink! I was wondering why there were gel beads on the counter. 
uke ) and when I pulled it out, the gel fell out of it like a decaying carcass all into the pail. I shook the rest of the diapers off before putting them into the washer and it was fine, but just a bit of a gross thing.
I had to explain again that I use cloth diapers... and remind him that his diapers are disposable and go in the garbage and aren't to be rinsed out. He was asking me about this earlier this morning and I didn't understand what he was talking about. He telling me he can't imagine I would want to put dirty diapers in my washing machine. And I said they are cloth and they get clean. So he said, "so what do you do with them after you wash them?" I said I use them on Caden again. And he said not the baby's diapers, mine. I said, oh, those are disposable, they go in the garbage, not the machine, I don't wash those. But he didn't remember that he'd already thrown one in my diaper pail or catch that he'd made a mistake.
I know some of you are thinking why don't I do cloth for him, too.... Well, his problem is not incontinence, it's diarrhea. He can't control his flatulating and sometimes a flood comes out instead. It's just too much for me to deal with by hand, girls, sorry. I don't dunk Caden's diapers even, I just grab off the chunks with TP and toss the rest in the pail. I just don't have a suitable place to rinse out my dad's diapers. There is a raised toilet seat on the toilet, so I can't use the toilet for that if I want to even.
He is not all there anymore. He has come to live out his last days with us. I don't know how long that will be, but he's 86 and has massive congestive heart failure, and it probably won't be more than a year or so.
Anyway, he is still ambulatory, but barely. But he's wearing disposables most of the time (he has a terrible bout of the runs and messes in his shorts every time he wears his underwear, like today), and his thinking is increasingly confused.
I use a dry pail, and I guess you know where this is going. I don't use a pail liner and have a front loader, so I'm hand-emptying the diapers into the FL and I come across one of his soiled diapers!
uke ) and when I pulled it out, the gel fell out of it like a decaying carcass all into the pail. I shook the rest of the diapers off before putting them into the washer and it was fine, but just a bit of a gross thing.I had to explain again that I use cloth diapers... and remind him that his diapers are disposable and go in the garbage and aren't to be rinsed out. He was asking me about this earlier this morning and I didn't understand what he was talking about. He telling me he can't imagine I would want to put dirty diapers in my washing machine. And I said they are cloth and they get clean. So he said, "so what do you do with them after you wash them?" I said I use them on Caden again. And he said not the baby's diapers, mine. I said, oh, those are disposable, they go in the garbage, not the machine, I don't wash those. But he didn't remember that he'd already thrown one in my diaper pail or catch that he'd made a mistake.
I know some of you are thinking why don't I do cloth for him, too.... Well, his problem is not incontinence, it's diarrhea. He can't control his flatulating and sometimes a flood comes out instead. It's just too much for me to deal with by hand, girls, sorry. I don't dunk Caden's diapers even, I just grab off the chunks with TP and toss the rest in the pail. I just don't have a suitable place to rinse out my dad's diapers. There is a raised toilet seat on the toilet, so I can't use the toilet for that if I want to even.
