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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A daughter talks to her Dad. Talks to her Dad because, especially, she thinks her Mom is not being rational. He has the power, the legal power for her care *you do not*

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OP here. He’s a hopeless case. He has always enabled her. There is no reasoning with him, either. I have tried. He does what she says, probably as someone else upthread said, to survive.[/quote]

My mother was difficult like this.  You can’t do anything.  Eventually I was like “I don’t want to hear any more about this until you’ve seen a doctor like I suggested.  Until then I’m not going to listen to you complain about it.”  And hang up.  It sometimes worked and if not, I didn’t have to participate.[/quote]

This. I might send over a knee scooter or a orthotic boot and her to at least put those on.

I have a mother who also won’t go to the Dr, but it’s got things like pneumonia or covid. She will allow herself to get insanely sick, her breathing is affected, and no matter how hard I beg, she won’t go. She’s almost died before, and she will just say “I didn’t know it would that bad” but the next time she gets sick the cycle repeats itself.

What I try is say: what’s the worse that can happen mom? You could die, we don’t want that. Please go. And sometimes that works. Obviously for a broken foot it wouldn’t be as severe but with anxiety if you can talk out what’s the worst that can happen maybe it will work.

So what’s the worst? She has a broken foot; ok then maybe she’d have to wear a cast and use crutches or have a walking boot for 2 months. The best is that it’s not broken and she just needs some Tylenol and to elevate it. If she says it out loud, maybe she can face the worst scenario she has in her head that’s stopping her. [/quote]

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