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Great stuff so funny!!
Point Round Up
3 points if you find the tv remote under the couch cousins
5 points if the keys are in the mail box
8 points if dentures are in the hearing aid container and another
10 points if the hearing aids are in a glass
20 smacking points if you find eye glasses in the rose bushes (this is my favorite)
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This is too funny!

Explanation Station-explain a new med, procedure, or diagnosis to your parent. Bonus points for not scaring them. Bonus points if they come back from the procedure and are still speaking to you, or actually take the med. Deduct points for each time you have to explain it again (and again, and again).
Food Endurance - can you make a whole day of meals they will eat without complaining?
Scheduling marathon - call for an appointment or question and wait for the person you need to talk to to call you back. Loose points if you can't wait anymore and call again. Bonus points for scheduling an appointment that's not at the same time as something else when they call you back and you are in the bathroom, driving, or otherwise without the Master Calander.

I think we are all Gold Medalists in all these events :)
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Seme: the walmart marathon made me laugh. Pretty well sums up a summer shopping experience w a wheelchair and a mom!! I really dislike the ole w mart and had crossed them off my list. May need to reconsider tho-less in and out of the car sounds appealing. When ur cute new puppies get trained in the basics, maybe u could get them trained to pull the wheelchair- like a bobsled. Slap a service dog vest on 'em and roll on through there with ease!! Ahh....
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Or the Walmart Marathon.........Try to find a parking space somewhere in a one-mile vicinity, put the handicapped sign on the rearview mirror, race to the back of the van to get the wheelchair, get mom out of the car, race uphill to the doors, grab a cart, push mom with one hand and drag the cart with the other for all those miles. Got to drag and push through the clothes aisles, get caught in the racks, race to HBA to get Tylenol, hair color, hit the pet section for dog food, go slowly around the jewelry....get to take a breath there.....get any old card, check out hardware to hang pictures, drag your feet through the shoe aisles, got to get new socks for the shoes.....PURSES!!!.....get to the food section.....more deodorizers for bathroom, bread milk, eggs, CANDY!!!! Grab a rotisserie chicken garanteed to give her the sh**s, get in line. Get out the door, fight the runaway wheelchair and cart all the way to the car, hoist mom into the van with the aid of a stepstool, turn the car on to cool her off, unload the cart, put it away, get in the car, drive home, get mom out and inside where it is too cool, go back out and unload the groceries. Get cold things in the frig, put mom's new jewelry on her, fix lunch, get all new clothes untagged for the washer, put new shoes on her feet she doesn't walk on..........that is a marathon to me!!!!!
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I could have won the Bathing Medley:

1) get clothes, towels, deodorant, lotions together and heat up the bathroonm.
2) Wheel mom in the bathroom and strip her before she realized what was happening.
3)Soap her up and hose her down while she is saying hurry up and get this damn shower over with.
4) Dry her off, lotin her up and get her dressed while she is hollering how cold it is.

Oh, YEAH, !!!!! RAH, RAH, RAH!!!!!!
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Truth or Consequences.
Did she really go to the bathroom before she got in the car?
Did she really swallow her meds, or did she hide it in her pocket?
Did she eat her dinner, or give it to the dog?
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Scavenger Hunt: How fast can you retrieve every item that Mom has hidden in the few minutes she is in the bathroom!!!
I.D. Event: How long does it take for your Police officers to pick up Mom and bring her home after she's wanders, if they pick her up, and bring her home, before you call them, you get the gold!!! Going through more than once is too much a GOLD medal... Because this means Mom has wandered enough that she automatically thinks the police are looking for her like routine and flags them down to go for a ride. How many police officers in your town know your Mom (or Dad) by first name, and you as the caregiver as well! Extra points for police I.D. and returns!!!
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Wheelchair slalom

Course consists of steep downward grade, level section with three consecutive heavy restaurant doors that contestant must hold open while pushing the wheelchair through, one curb down with no cutout and with sand 1” deep on the other side, one curb up with no cutout and with mud extending out from the curb 1.5 meters, long detour to bathroom, and finally a steep upward grade.

Dumping wheelchair passenger is immediate disqualification.

Demerits for each utterance not suitable for a church, mosque, or synagogue: 2 seconds per utterance added to total time. For scuffing passengers shoes or soiling clothing with mud or sand: 2.2 seconds added per instance.

Bonus for passenger smiling at finish line: 4 seconds deducted from total time.
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1.) Mad Bathroom Dash: Finding the nearest public bathroom in 30 seconds or less
2.) ER Challenge: Gather clothes and toiletries to take to the hospital before time is up
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Thanks for contributing. ok so I'll add a few myself. I find letting my imagination go relieves stress.

Locate the lost glasses, tv remote (fill in the blank) - quickest time wins but extra points for searching thru garbage
The clone challenge: You have been on hold for over 1/2 hour waiting for the dr, insurance rep, medicare rep, (fill in) , just as they come on the line, your family member needs to go to the bathroom, the delivery/repair man shows up.

The slide challenge: longest time without sliding down and needing to be pulled up again wins
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You guys are too funny!

Nothing too add (my creativity is broken right now), but thanks for the laugh. :)
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I forgot about the TV Kimbee, this is a great thread, are we the only three with a sense of humor...???
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How many times (out of ten) can you successfully enter a post on AC from your I-phone without dumping it or changing the intended meaning with your out of control auto-corrector?!
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Too funny!

How loud can u get the tv w/o breaking your eardrums and blowing the speakers?

How many ways can you come up with to make taking a shower fun and appealing for a senior with dementia?

How much bleach can you add without making white spots on the colored laundry?
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How about how many times you can answer the same question...
Speak loud enough for the neighbors to hear, but not your elder....
Trying to get one elder in the car while the other one is wandering down the drive way...
Fixing all meals that taste like chocolate because the elder only wants sweets....
Remainig calm under all circumstances.....
Breathing, just breathing.....
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