I received a text this evening that the house was concerned about the very high blood sugars Daughter was having today (over 300 before supper). When I picked her up this evening, I asked her what she'd been eating. She did the standard denials, and then confessed to buying candy while on an outing yesterday. She told staff it was for the house. I made her call the house and confess, and tell staff where the candy was so they could removed it.
I get so tired of this. So tired.
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why did you pick her up in the first place and when you discovered she bought candy why didn't you take her right back. she plays everyone and gets what she wants. no wonder you are tired.
I picked her up for several reasons:
1. It makes Sunday morning much easier if she is here and I don't have to go pick her up.
2. The staff needs a break from her, too.
3. I wanted to find out how she was getting food, and she won't tell me over the phone.
I didn't take her back for all the reasons above plus I want her to tell me the truth, and if I take her back after she confesses, it will be harder to get the truth out of her....
Of course you were right to pick her up. Don't you just love armchair quarterbacks?
Letting your DD buy candy "for the house" is pretty much like letting an alcoholic buy a bottle of wine "for company," but that's her caregivers' bad call, not yours.
Thanks. I'm a little sensitive right now, because I feel like the team is blaming me because I haven't cured her of sneaking food. The suggestion that she needed "professional help" really got to me. I guess all the people she saw when we lived in Inner City and Tiny Village weren't professionals....
They're just passing the buck, IMO. They couldn't stop her from sneaking food and neither could you, so now it's time for "professional help."
If professional help would stop the eating, she would have stopped eating years ago. I have gone above and beyond in seeking out appropriate professionals to work with her.
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