My mom doesn’t remember much, in fact, she doesn’t know who the hell I am. She likes me, I’m her BFF, but she doesn’t know my name. The one thing she does remember is that she smokes. This has become a problem. A big one. It isn’t enough anymore just to hide all the lighters, she’s at the point where she’s dangerous. She burns holes in her clothes, knocks the cherry off the end of her cig, she’s even put her smoke out right on the tablecloth, a brand new tablecloth, I don’t mind saying. Want to know the best part? She wasn’t enjoying it much. She would make “yukky” faces and even say, “Blech!” while exhaling, but she wanted to smoke. You can’t convince a person with dementia they don’t want to smoke, they think you’re crazy and evil.
Then last week it hit me. I’ve had the solution to this problem sitting in my hot little hand for over a year! Vaping! I have a lot of vaping equipment, tanks, carts, batteries, whatnot, but I’ve had the perfect set-up for my mom sitting right beside me for months. It’s called a Vapor Zeus, and it has a super-sized cartridge, it doesn’t leak, and it lasts all day long. Plus, and this is a big plus as far as mommy is concerned, it can be filled with sweet flavors.
Mom loves it. Now, she has managed to lose or hide one of my batteries somewhere in this house, leaving me temporarily without, but that was my bad for having a preference for dark colors. I’m sure I’ll locate that sucker eventually. We have ordered her a kit in their magenta color and that should be quite a bit easier to spot. Either way there’s a new kit and a spare on the way. Along with a lower nicotine bottle of juice in their vanilla mocha frappe flavor. Yummy.
When I went for my migraine shots last week I told her doctor that I switched my mom from smoking to vaping, not sure how she would react. It seems a lot of doctors don’t seem all that thrilled with e-smokes. I was very pleasantly surprised when she told me it was excellent, and the best thing I could have done for her. Yes! I walked out of that office a happy woman.
It’s her third week vaping and I’m going to go ahead and call it a success. She’s completely acclimated to her Zeus. Don’t try to take it, it’s hers, and she’ll tell you that loud and clear. As for the rest of us here at chez triv? Oh, I can’t even describe what a relief it is to no longer go to bed at night wondering: Is this the night we all die in a fire?
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she has put the wrong end in her mouth and blown us a cloud once or twice~
can’t tell ya how happy i am for ya! 😀