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Handling an elder that is getting meaner with aging. - AgingCare.com

I am one of eight children. My mother is 86, wheel chair bound and needs care minute by minute. None of my siblings will help take care of her because they have all had enough of her abuse over their lifetimes. I promised my father, over 20 years ago, on his death bed, that I would care for her.

I built a house directly behind her house with a breezeway that connects the two so that I can live with her and still be near my wife and family. I have been living with her and taking care of all her medical, financial and physical needs for over a year now. However, my family is not allowed in her house and she gets infuriated when I visit them even though I rarely stay for more than 15 minutes at a time and make sure she has everything she needs before I go.

She has always been just plain mean, but recently it is more like evil. She contradicts everything I say. She accuses me of stealing meaningless things that she has either hid or forgotten that she had packed it away and had it put in the attic. She hides her purse somewhere different everyday and then when she can't remember where she hid it, even accuses me of stealing it. She is constantly calling me a liar.

I cant wash the dishes right, do laundry right, make her bed right, fix her hair right and I have been doing these things for over a year. I am not allowed to watch her TV, answer her phone, etc.

She has appointed me power of attourney over finance and medical. She has had her will done and has named me executor. She has changed all life insurance policy beneficiary recipients to me to distribute. Now that she has done all that she says she is relieved because she know I am the only one that has or will take care her outstanding bills.

Now her view has changed and she is saying I got what I wanted and now I am acting like she doesn't matter. She even said "To hell with me now, you dont take care of me anymore now that I put you in charge."

Nothing about my routine has changed. She is getting excellent care. I have a nurse that checks on her every week. I have a physical therapist that comes twice a week to work with her. I have a woman that comes every other day to bathe her. I get up with her 3 and 4 times a night to get her to the bathroom or clean up where she has messed the bed, rearrange her pillows to make her more comfortable or massage her feet because they hurt and are keeping her awake.

I feed her 3 times a day and keep snacks available nearby. I give her her medicine in the morning and as needed throughout the day.

She swears I am trying to kill her by laying her pills out and not putting them in front of the bottle they came out of so now I do that. She is constantly carrying medicine bottles around the house in her wheelchair and then losing them throughout the house which causes yet another hunt of the whole house.

She is in chronic pain. She has ticdeloria, arthritis, is diabetic and steadily loosing weight. The further away I am in the house, the louder she wails and cries. If I leave the room to go to the bathroom, even if she has been fine all day, she will begin wailing and crying until I come back. She pulls at her hair and throws fits like a child if she even suspects I might go see my wife for a minute.

Thing is, she is sharp as a tack. She does not have dementia and is playing these games as if she gets satisfaction from the turmoil it causes me. She is mad that I am the only child that will have anything to do with her. I have 5 sisters and there were 3 of us boys and I am the only one. They dont call for birthdays or holidays, may show up once or twice a year out of the blue and cant get out of there fast enough once they get here.

She treats me and talks to me like a dog. She talks to other people about me like a dog. She tells them I am not taking care of her, that I am never there, that I dont feed her or give her the proper medicine and I am right in the next room when she is telling it and can hear it all.

I am at my whits end. She throws things at me and screams at me and when I try to calm her down she just gets madder. Please help with some advice that will help me keep my sanity. I am just barely hanging on. Thx.

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And you put up with this garbage because ....? Oh yeah, you promised your dad.

Your wife and family put up with seeing you in 15-minute increments because ...? That's one I can't figure out.

Is there a large estate to inherit? I'm sorry, but I'm reaching for reasons and having a tough time with it.

When you promised Dad that you would take care of Mom, did that really mean you would physically live with her, spend every night with her, and basically forsake your wife? You need to see that she is cared for. You need to ensure that she has food and shelter and nursing help, physical therapy, whatever services she requires. It sounds like you are doing that just fine. If she needs 24/7 supervision, either more in-home services are needed or it is time to consider a long term care facility where they have sufficient staff trained to handle difficult elders, nobody works 24 hours, everybody gets reasonable breaks, and workers have a life outside of the care center.

I truly feel sorry for your mom. She is in constant pain, she has chronic conditions that she knows will not get better. She has been abandoned by 7 of her children (or rather she has alienated them, but that won't be how she sees it.) Hers is a sad life. My heart goes out to her. So should yours, and it sounds like it does. But from what you have written it is absolutely clear that sacrificing your family, your freedom, and your sanity is not helping her be a happier person at all.

What you are doing is not working. Continuing to do it and expecting different results is not realistic. Quit barely hanging on. Make changes and get yourself out of this intolerable situation. Honor the promise to your father and your duty to your mother, but figure out how to do it without throwing yourself away. You are way too valuable for that.
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Oh, Belladora...it sounds like you have had a blessed life and been a blessing to your children! People with elders like you don't need this site as much as the ones who would LIKE to be loving, caring children but find themselves demeaned and belittled daily, and as Loretta said, when it is your own parent especially, to be told daily or even more often how stupid, ugly, and worthless you are when you are struggling to do your best just saps your spirit. You are blessed because you find that sort of behavior so unimaginable, but every day people write in about elders who expect to be taken care of - by their children, or worse still by ONE of their children and no one else, ever - no matter what because they feel it is owed to them; there are those who think nothing of uprooting and destroying their children's lives, jobs, marriages and self-worth. Yes, some do that because they have lost their judgement and their empathy to the ravages of dementia, but some have been narcissists all their life and never really acknowledged that their children were separate human beings with different needs of their own. YOU are obviously not like that.

And, yes, these children are ravaged by unmerited guilt, heaped upon them by the elder, sometimes by siblings, sometimes just by society in general and sometimes by people who simply state that assisted living facilities and nursing homes are for people whose families don't love them.
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Lord have mercy, any one living under the conditions you describe would be hanging on by a thread.... sorry, but I would either get her 24 hour care if she can afford it, or place her in a NH.... what is she going to do, get angry and tell lies about you??? She does that now.... so what will change... nothing... except you will get your life back and your family... your wife must be a saint to put up with this arrangement.....
I have nothing but praise for your attempt to keep your word to your dad, but as jeanne said, there are many ways for you to be true to your word without killling yourself.... search out resources and get out of there.... please let us know that you are following thru with this and that you are ok.... I commend you for your sacrfices, but it is time for a serious change.... prayers for you....
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Such great advice and compassion here. I am feeling much less alone in this world and feeling empowered to make change.

I went to social services for advice. Her social worker believes it is mental illness that she has probably dealt with all of her life and has set her up for a psychiatric evaluation that will happen in about a month or so. She said there is quite a demand for this so they are back logged.

She said if the psych sees fit, it will be out of my hands and he will put her in a mental facility. If he doesn't see her as a danger to herself (losing pills all over the house and never knowing what she has really taken), she said I can make that decision as her symptoms progress.

I have also arranged for 5 hours a day, six days a week of in home care. My sister, who lives two doors down, is now willing to help, knowing that she will be paid to do so...ironic.

Over the holidays I had a niece visit her. While I was in my bedroom and they obviously didn't know I was even in the house, they had a lengthy discussion about me. Mommy was all too eager to cut me to the bone for nearly an hour and a half. When my niece said, "Well, Mawmaw, I better say bye to Uncle Carl, I stepped from around the corner and said "You don't have to go far, I am right here." You should have seen their faces!

I hadn't talked to my mother for days. Only curt one word answers to her questions and requests. Shes cried every day. "Carl, I am so sick today/weak today." All in an attempt to break my silence. She finally figured out that game wouldn't work and just came clean. However, I have seen it before. She will behave for a couple of days and then somehow forget it ever happened and we are back to square one.

Thank you so very much for all of the advice. I feel much less trapped now. Keep it coming and I will keep you informed of how things are going.
Thanks again!
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This is a case of the tail wagging the dog. Put her in a home and move on with your life. She is just not nice and is happy punishing you for whatever reasons she manifests in her mind. Don't do this anymore. And remember you have a wife to think about, don't let her destroy that too.
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My folks are both in care together (at my Dad's insistence) but I make a 700 mile round trip to see them for 5 or 6 days every month and talk to my Dad every day on the phone (I listen and my Dad complains) - that is all I can do as I live alone and have no property or inheritance to fall back on and have to work full time to support myself so I use up most of my days off to make the visits. This is not enough for my Dad and he thinks I should give up my life, change my job (not easy as I am 55 now) and move back to rent something where they are so that I can be 'on call' full time for him and spend every night and weekend visiting. I wouldn't mind doing this if I thought it would make him happy, but it’s just so that he can have me there to complain to (my mum is deaf now and can't/won't listen to him anymore) and to run back and forward doing things for him rather than ask the staff at the care home. Part of me wants to go back so that I can be there for my mum as he is now talking about leaving that home and getting in somewhere else so that he doesn't have to see her anymore as she is 'off her head' according to him - she has mild dementia and loss of short term memory but she still knows who people are and can hold a conversation if people are patient with her hearing problems - he doesn't care about her now, just himself. Part of me also knows that if I do it, there will be no difference at all. He will continue to be demanding and unreasonable and as miserable as he always has been and I will have thrown away my good job, my friends and a life of my own for nothing and I will be too old by the time he is gone to make a new start for myself.
I think I know what decision I will make as one thing is for sure – my Dad was always mean and selfish and manipulative – my mother used to say so all the time, so the fact that he is old had only made him meaner and more selfish and manipulative and he is not going to change just because I am on the doorstep. I have made sure they are both in a care home which is nice and the staff are lovely and they get great care, I will do as much as I can to support them emotionally and visit as much as I can, but not to the extent that I throw away my own health and life.
If we knew for a fact we would be fit and hale and hearty after years of sacrifice I am sure it wouldn’t be such a hard choice, but we most of us know we can’t keep giving so much and receiving nothing but stress without some long term damage. What you are doing is far too much given the lack of understanding you are getting from your mum. She has taken over your life and sees you as her personal servant and because you are blood she is unkind and unreasonable and knows you will forgive her – she would not treat a stranger like that. Did your mother give that sort of care to her parents? I think not! Get in touch with social services and get some help for yourself – you need a) a counsellor to get you through the guilt and the fact that you are sacrificing your own life for hers, and b) someone to take control of the situation and help you find a care home for your mother so that you can get your life back. You are lucky that your wife has not left you under these circumstances so you need to sort it out before things go badly wrong – and if that happened believe me, your mother would only think “good, now you can be with me all the time” so don’t let it happen!
I wish you all the luck in the world in dealing with this, but get as much help from other people as you can – you need it to empower yourself.
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Belladora, your attitude that "the elderly do not really expect you to take care of them..." is your attitude, and that's a generous, gracious attitude to have. Unfortunately, it doesn't apply to lots of other elderly people. Just as there are surely plenty of entitled children, there are also many entitled parents out there.
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It is difficult at best. My older brother & I recently got involved with the care of my mother who left when I was eight years old, divorced my dad, and because it was deemed that she abandoned her children my father was one of the first men in Massachusetts to gain custody of his kids. This was in the early 70's. She was bitter about her life as the man she left me dad for left her to marry another shortly after the divorce. Her life did not turn out how she thought.

She was involved with us growing up but it usually involved creating a tremendous amount of chaos. So much so that we eventually became estranged. She has been terribly viscous to my father and I and extended her venom to our children on many occasions. The only one of her children she seemed to care for and dote on was my other brother who systematically abused & financially exploited her.

Now that she is elderly, sick, frail, and penniless this dirtbag moved out of state called us to step in and threatened U.S. With elderly affairs which I had already been calling for multiple years. It is a very strange position to be in to be caring for someone who was never emotionally there as a parent and was often abusive. We had to place her in long term care. While going through her belongings I found pictures of myself and my kids that I had sent over the years with some of the most terrible things written on the back of them u my mother. She has said some of the most horrible things about her own grandchildren, it is painfully sad as my dad who I was close to, passed when my daughter was 18 months old and before my son was born. I know that he would have loved to have been able to be involved with them it my mother has always been too bitter to put her own issues aside and therefore lost out on so much.

So the only thing I can say to you is this. I take care of my mother not out of love, that would be ridiculous, but out of compassion. I try to keep in mind that my mother was never fully healthy. She has been dealing with undiagnosed mental disorders for decades that have left her incapable of being kind and loving to her children. When the end comes I will rest easy knowing that I did all I could for s woman who could not do for herself and could never be the mother she should have been to her children.
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It sounds like you have some personal pain around aging and care, and I'm very sorry for what you're going through. But, being judgmental is simply not kosher on this site, even if you completely disagree with someone.

For many people, this site is literally the ONLY place to be candid, honest, and work through the very difficult crosses there are to bear. We don't lash out here.

You are certainly welcome to discuss what is really bothering you and how you feel about it, without criticizing other site members.

My mother was abusive and I respect her by putting her in a care facility where there are people who can physically deal with her violence, her combativeness, her psychosis, her physical needs, her medical needs, and her social needs. She is safe from the world and herself. There is no amount of judgement from another person to make me change anything because they are not walking in my shoes.
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Only1, I feel your misery. AND your sense of obligation. Please listen to what you are reading here, and find ways to let it go. You will never make her happy. She will be exactly as UNHAPPY as she is, whether you do everything perfectly, or whether she is moved to a skilled nursing facility, or whether she gets full-time, in home care NOT PROVIDED BY YOU. You cannot earn "good child" points here, much as a younger part of you wants to. You cannot love your Dad more, or honor him more, by continuing down this path.
We all want lots of things in life -- and in death. What she wants in her death is what she wants in life: to maintain intense control over you and anything else she can control, because so much else is slipping away. That's just the way it is. It was said above: What you are doing isn't working. It isn't going to work.
A last ditch suggestion is to find out if you can get her doc to prescribe a small dose or seroquil or haldol or some other anti-psychotic meds. They will tell you there is a black box warning and it's not appropriate. But it's the standard of care in SMALL DOSES and it could help her be less combative till you are able to step back and see that your true obligation is to your family next door. And to yourself. There is already a part of your being that KNOWS it's time to let others, non-family members, step in and take care of her, and it's willing to inform the rest of you of that right now. Let it do so with grace and ease, right now.
Good luck to you. She will be as fine as she can be. It will not be your picture of "fine" but it will BE fine.
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Understanding the meaning of your search is crucial to returning good answers. So to find pages with relevant information, our first step is to analyze what the words in your search query mean. We build language models to try to decipher what strings of words we should look up in the index.

This involves steps as seemingly simple as interpreting spelling mistakes, and extends to trying to understand the type of query you’ve entered by applying some of the latest research on natural language understanding. For example, our synonym system helps Search know what you mean, even if a word has multiple definitions. This system took over five years to develop and significantly improves results in over 30% of searches across languages.

We also try to understand what category of information you are looking for. Is it a very specific search or a broad query? Are there words such as “review” or “pictures” or “opening hours” that indicate a specific information need behind the search? Are you searching for trending keywords that imply you want content published that day? Or are you searching for a nearby business and want local info?

Matching your search

Next, we look for webpages with information that matches your query. When you search, at the most basic level, our algorithms look up your search terms in the index to find the appropriate pages. They analyze how often and where those keywords appear on a page, whether in titles or headings or in the body of the text.

As well as matching keywords, algorithms look for clues to measure how well potential search results give users what they are looking for. When you search for “dogs” you likely don’t want a page with the word “dogs” on it hundreds of times. We try to figure out if the page contains an answer to your query and doesn’t just repeat your query. So Search algorithms analyze whether the pages include relevant content — such as pictures of dogs, videos, or even a list of breeds. Finally, we check to see if the page is written in the same language as your question in order to prioritize pages in your preferred language.

Ranking useful pages

For a typical query, there are thousands, even millions, of webpages with potentially relevant information. So to help rank the best pages first, we also write algorithms to evaluate how useful these webpages are.

These algorithms analyze hundreds of different factors to try to surface the best information the web can offer, from the freshness of the content, to the number of times your search terms appear and whether the page has a good user experience. In order to assess trustworthiness and authority on its subject matter, we look for sites that many users seem to value for similar queries. If other prominent websites on the subject link to the page, that’s a good sign the information is high quality.

There are many spammy sites on the web that try to game their way to the top of search results through techniques like repeating keywords over and over or buying links that pass PageRank. These sites provide a very poor user experience and may even harm or mislead Google’s users. So we write algorithms to identify spam and remove sites that violate Google’s webmaster guidelines from our results.

Considering context

Information such as your location, past search history and Search settings all help us to tailor your results to what is most useful and relevant for you in that moment.

We use your country and location to deliver content relevant for your area. For instance, if you’re in Chicago and you search “football”, Google will most likely show you results about American football and the Chicago Bears first. Whereas if you search “football” in London, Google will rank results about soccer and the Premier League higher. Search settings are also an important indicator of which results you’re likely to find useful, such as if you set a preferred language or opted in to SafeSearch (a tool that helps filter out explicit results).

In some instances, we may also personalize your results using information about your recent Search activity. For instance, if you search for “Barcelona” and recently searched for “Barcelona vs Arsenal”, that could be an important clue that you want information about the football club, not the city. You can control what search activity is used to improve your Search experience, including adjusting what data is saved to your Google account, at

Returning the best results

Before we serve your results, we evaluate how all the relevant information fits together: is there only one topic among the search results, or many? Are there too many pages focusing on one narrow interpretation? We strive to provide a diverse set of information in formats that are most helpful for your type of search. And as the web evolves, we evolve our ranking systems to deliver better results for more queries.

Useful responses take many forms

Larry Page once described the perfect search engine as understanding exactly what you mean and giving you back exactly what you want. Over time, our testing has consistently showed that users want quick answers to their queries. We have made a lot of progress on delivering you the most relevant answers, faster and in formats that are most helpful to the type of information you are seeking.

If you are searching for the weather, you most likely want the weather forecast on the results page, not just links to weather sites. Or directions: if your query is “Directions to San Francisco airport”, you want a map with directions, not just links to other sites. This is especially important on mobile devices where bandwidth is limited and clicking between sites can be slow.

Thousands of engineers and scientists are hard at work refining our algorithms and building useful new ways to search. You can find some of our Search innovations below. With some 1600 improvements to Google Search in 2016 alone, these are just a sample of some of the ways we have been making Search better and better over time.

Answers from the Knowledge Graph

e.g. How tall is the Eiffel Tower?

In 2012, we launched the Knowledge Graph, our database of more than one billion real-world people, places and things with over 50 billion facts and connections among them. The world is made of real things, not just text strings. So we built the Knowledge Graph to show how things are connected. You can get quick answers to questions like “What is the Eiffel Tower?”, “How tall is it?”, “When was it first opened?” and then click to explore across the web.

Directions and traffic

e.g. Directions to O’Hare airport

It was always pretty obvious that when people searched on Google for an address — for example “Bushwood road” — they didn’t want a link to websites mentioning this street. They most likely wanted to know where it was and how to get there. So, we built a map that was clickable and draggable, making it super easy to explore.

Direct answers

e.g. Sundance Showtimes

Sometimes you want direct answers for certain queries so we team up with businesses that can deliver the information and services you are looking for and license their content to provide useful responses right on the Search results page. For instance, if you’re looking for the showtimes of movies at your local cinema, we partner with data providers that have up to date and reliable information about when films are showing in your area and with ticketing service providers to help you buy tickets. This is also how we can bring you the weather forecast and sports scores directly on the Search page.

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Featured snippets

e.g. When was the 21st amendment passed?

When you ask Google a question, our goal is to help you find the answer quickly and easily. Featured snippets help provide quick answers to questions by drawing attention to programmatically generated snippets from websites that our algorithms deem relevant to the specific question being asked. All Featured Snippets include a snippet of information quoted from a third party website, plus a link to the page, the page title and URL.

Featured snippets

Rich lists

e.g. Famous female astronomers

The best answer to your question is not always a single entity, but a list or group of connected people, places or things. So when you search for [California lighthouses] or [famous female astronomers], we’ll show you a list of these things across the top of the page. By combining our Knowledge Graph with the collective wisdom of the web, we can even provide lists like [best action movies of 2016] or [things to do in Rome]. If you click on an item, you can then explore the result more deeply on the web.

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Answers before you have to ask

People expect information at their fingertips. That’s why the Google app on your smartphone incorporates shortcuts and a feed of useful information right onto the homescreen. This gives you access to in-depth experiences across sports, dining, entertainment and weather without having to type out a query.

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Evolving to meet the ever-changing web

The web is constantly evolving, with hundreds of new webpages published every second. That’s reflected in the results you see in Google Search: we constantly recrawl the web to index new content. Depending on your query, some results pages change rapidly, while others are more stable. For example, when you’re searching for the latest score of a sports game we have to perform up-to-the-second updates, while results about a historical figure may remain static for years at a time.

Today, Google handles trillions of searches each year. Every day, 15% of the queries we process are ones we’ve never seen before. Building Search algorithms that can serve the most useful results for all these queries is a complex challenge that requires ongoing quality testing and investment.

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Probably one of the sharpest things done by fitness clothing manufacturers is the invention of the undieless yoga pants. This one comes with the ease of letting you not wear underwear because of its reinforced moisture wicking crotch lining that is thick enough to hide any camel toe. Finally you have the chance to skip all the underwear lines and be truly comfortable on your yoga mat.

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If you were worried about getting your fashion right after workouts, then convertible athleisure clothing is the way to get things right. Forget making your workouts super heavy anymore. Each of these fitness apparels are especially made so that they can be worn in different ways and that is what gives you more style options than you have ever imagined.

In case you were thinking that fitness clothing brands were hitting a saturation point – they are just getting started.

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Are you always thinking whether your workout intensity is good enough? Well, with the color changing athletic t shirts, finding that out is going to easier than ever. Why? Color changing athletic wear is triggered by sweat and the thermal output of your body and then you know that your workout is hitting the right kind of intensity. It is simplistic and amazing all at the same time and there is no way for an athlete to have a better, more comfortably fitted indicator.

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Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at the Holmesville Church of Christ with Pastor Gene Lilly officiating. Burial will take place at Prairie Township Cemetery, Holmesville, Ohio. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the church and also one hour prior to the services on Saturday.
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    A total of 64.84 percent of voters said "yes" in Sunday's vote to the question of whether they wanted to amend the constitution to include a definition of marriage as a "union between a woman and a man".

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Life of a (Rookie) Editor: Firing Clients

I have tried very hard not to write ranty or whiny blog posts about the challenges I face as a freelance editor. Let me tell you, they are many and the temptation is great, but this isn’t a personal blog. But this time, I feel like there is a lesson to be learned from the whiny rant I want to post, so I’ll try to keep the annoying parts out and stick to important stuff.

I love being a manga editor. When I get work in and I’m 90 pages deep into a tankobon, I couldn’t be happier. Even when I get rush work and I’m crying because I’m so stressed out, I come out of it feeling so content that the product of my hard work will be on shelves in a matter of months.

I HATE being a freelancer. Having to invoice people, then having to chase down my clients when they don’t pay me on time, never having enough work on my plate, constantly trying to find new clients and waiting for a big break or a full-time job to put me out of my misery. If it was possible, my new year’s resolution would be to give up freelancing for 2012. But then I’d only have a job at my mom’s travel business and I only work there four days a month.

Luckily, since legit freelance manga editing jobs are hard to come by, the following story about having to fire a client is not about a manga publisher. Actually, all my manga publishing clients are really decent folks who usually pay me on time, the occasional glitches aside.

I got this client, we’ll call them Client D, after Tokyopop shut down because I needed something to start filling that gaping hole in my income. I was actually really excited to work with Client D because I really connected with my managing editor and because it wasn’t manga-related work, which would allow me to branch out into other areas of editing.

In June, the first month I worked for them, they sent me lots of work and I accidentally invoiced them too much because I was editing their articles like I edit books: over and over and over again. That was not what Client D wanted, but they kindly told me that they’d pay me the invoiced amount anyway since they were pleased with my work.

The next month, I got into the swing of things, but they sent me approximately half of the work they sent me the month before. Things still looked promising though, because Client D was telling me about other kinds of work they wanted to give me. This time, there were no problems with the amount of the invoice I sent them.

In August, I had to hassle them about paying that first invoice because it was agreed upon that Client D would pay me within 30 days of invoicing. Yup, Client D had already failed to honor our agreement on my first invoice to them. They did pay me by the end of the month, about 60 days after invoicing, but I had gotten less work from them that month too.

I inquired about more work in September, but was told they didn’t have any. Realizing I had forgotten to invoice my August work in October, I promptly invoiced them and also inquired about why I hadn’t been paid already for my July work.

Another month passed, with e-mail exchanges that promised me I would get paid for my work soon, but no actual payment coming my way and no more new work from Client D. I finally got my July invoice paid in December after harassing their poor accountant, who was probably freelance herself. (She assured me that Client D always paid, but I had to tell her that getting them to pay me was like pulling teeth.)

Now it’s January and I’m still waiting on a mere $90 from October, 2011. Because Client D is a small business, I can understand why they are keeping their copy-editing in-house right now and not sending me more work. I haven’t hassled them about that. What I don’t understand is why it’s taken Client D so long to pay me for work I’ve already done for them and why they think it’s OK to just keep forgetting.

So I fired them as politely as I could. I did like working for them when times were good, and my contacts had been as kind as possible to me when times weren’t so good, but it was clearly time to part ways.

I realized a few things as I did this, though. It’s ethically wrong to stiff freelancers out of their hard-earned money. Chances are, especially in this economy, that money is needed to put food on the table. A freelancer’s precious time is wasted if they don’t get paid.

It can be easy to feel like the clients are the masters, but they aren’t. One of the beauties of freelancing is that one can turn down clients and turn down work when one wants to. Ideally, this only happens when a freelancer has too much on their plate already. Well, ideally, clients treat freelancers like any other hard-working employee who earns their paycheck! If that’s not the case and the paycheck isn’t coming on time, it’s time to let go.

About Daniella Orihuela-Gruber

Daniella is a freelance manga editor and blogger. She likes collecting out of print manga and playing with her puppy. Yes, someone got her a puppy already.
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5 Responses to Life of a (Rookie) Editor: Firing Clients

  1. animemiz says:

    Hang in there…have to stand up for your goals and what skills you have. Thanks for talking about your story as a freelance editor.. yes times are pretty tough though.

  2. Justin says:

    Sounds like a very tough situation to be in. But you gotta be professional about it…and the facts are you didn’t get paid nowhere near in time. Not sure if you could have handled it differently.

    • I’m sure there are slight variances on how I could have handled it, but aside from not respecting myself as a freelancer and just taking the whole thing lying down… Well, that wasn’t an option. I don’t make enough and that money could get me to a point where I don’t have to freelance.

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 On Thursday, May 10, 2018, The Blues Foundation announced the winners of the 39th Annual Blues Music Awards, the blues world's highest honors. Alligator Records artists Rick Estrin, his band Rick Estrin & The Nightcats and soul singer Curtis Salgado all won awards.The ceremony was held in Memphis at the Cook Convention Center.

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Since 2013, all our nurseries have offered Forest School sessions with Paul Craske our Forest School Leader. These sessions are free for our nursery pre-school children and provide a fantastic opportunity for the children to explore the wider world.

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Dementia and Sight Loss Interest Group

Aims to develop and promote better understanding of the issues facing people affected by dementia and sight loss. Also provides materials, resources and tools that contribute to good practice.

Macular Society

A national charity offering support and advice for anyone affected by central vision loss.

Address: PO Box 1870, Andover, Hampshire SP10 9AD
Telephone: 0300 3030 111 (helpline)
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Royal National Institute of Blind People

A charity that offers support and advice to blind and partially sighted people in the UK.

Address: 105 Judd Street, London WC1H 9NE
Telephone: 0303 123 9999 (Monday to Friday 8.45am – 5.30pm)
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Last reviewed: March 2016

Next review due: March 2019

Reviewed by: Dr John Paul Taylor, Wellcome Intermediate Clinical Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University; Daniel Collerton, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Clinical Teacher, Newcastle University; Paul Ursell, Consultant Ophthalmologist and Lead Cataract Surgeon for Epsom & St Helier University NHS Trust; College of Optometrists.

This information has also been reviewed by people affected by dementia. A list of sources is available on request from our Publications team.

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Workers’ compensation fraud poses a huge problem in Northern California. Fraudulent claims have cost the region jobs and undermined the integrity of the system, causing unnecessary delays in treating real injuries and casting a shadow over thousands of legitimate claims that are filed each year. Everyone suffers because of workers’ compensation fraud. Tax dollars are wasted, the price of consumer goods increases and employers and legitimately injured workers lose money.

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Claimant Fraud

  •     Claiming a job-related injury that never occurred
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Please contact our office at (209)223-6444 if you have any questions or concerns regarding workers' compensation insurance fraud.

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