Mom has been going through a slight OCD episode these last few days wherein she has been playing constantly with the control for her heating pad. She's also written all over the pad itself, but that's a different story. She keeps the pad with her all day on the couch although lately she's only been using it intermittently. (Last summer she kept it on all the time, even when the temperature in the house was over 80F. Now, in mid-"winter" she sometimes doesn't even use it when the temperature drops below 70F. It's really more habit than actual cold that triggers usage.)
This lack of use has not prevented her from leaving the thing on all day so that it heats the arm of the couch very nicely, thank you. We've spoken to her about this several times, explaining that it's OK to turn it on if she intends to use it but that it must be off otherwise. She's retained some garbled version of this which is, I believe, what has triggered her nervous attention to the control device.
A couple of times, now, after she's fiddled with it for several minutes, when I've asked her what she's doing she's said, "I don't know where this goes!" I explain that it doesn't need to go anywhere, it's OK to leave it right where it is unless she wants to use it, otherwise just leave it off, but she doesn't believe me. Last night she was pulling on the cord and I warned her she would unplug it if she wasn't careful. She insisted she didn't want to do that and was just trying to find out where the control was supposed to go.
She seems most content when she's stuffed the control down between the arm of the couch and the cushion whether it's on or not.
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