My MIL lives with us, she’s 84, 13 years ago I married her son so we could use my VA loan to buy her a house. She infested that home with roaches. She moved in with us, in a separate mother in law apartment, and she infested that house with roaches. We recently moved, and she’s been visiting family for a month while we did the moving. Her dog is finally a healthy weight, I got most of the roaches out of her apartment and the rest of the house while she was gone.
First night in, she asks if I mind if she takes some food we picked up in her room. I asked her to please not. She did anyway. She also let our cat out. My son found the cat. She let the dog out twice this week. She fed the dogs human soup that has onions in it, and when I tried to talk to her about it she said she only gave the dogs dog food, and when she brought them in, she brings the two dogs, totally 15 pounds in weight, 8 pupperoni treats.
These dogs are not going to eat these treats. They will hide these treats all over her room. I said “Please, I don’t want bugs in my house again” ave she got mad and insisted she didn’t have bugs in her room and took the pile of treats in there anyway.
I can’t afford a retirement home, she doesn’t qualify for a nursing home, but she only gets $1100 in SS per month so we have to take care of her.
The light at the end of the tunnel is there’s an offer on the old house, as is, and there are small houses in our neighborhood for sale that we can afford with that money. She’d be able to live there and it’d be as easy to bring her to appointments and shopping as when she was downstairs, she she couldn’t bring in more roaches.
Wish me luck.
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