Dear, dear Fishgirl I am senior fish person personified. There are days when nothing but venom comes out of my mouth - anger, disappointment, dissatisfaction overtake the nice(?) me and I BLAST OFF! - Oh yes those holiday photos. The lazy, hazy happy holiday they're having (3rd this year or whatever) - and the comments when they return bronzed and replete. "Are you going away? No? Oh but you should! - it's not good for you not to get away. I KNOW THAT!!!!! Oh don't I want to weep and scream and rant for us all and just wish for a very small slice of justice for every last one of us tired, deflated carers. (sorry, no suggestions for where that justice might come from.) Oh yes! Those holidays Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!. Take heart fishgirl, I suspect we're part of a very, very large group of people that feel just the way you and I do. Sympathy and hugs too you
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Hi everyone, I know Dementia can turn the person with it into a different nasty person, but now my OH illness is turning me into one! Yesterday morning a neighbor called to pick up a parcel I’d taken in for her earlier in the week, she then proceeded to tell me what seemed like every detail of the wonderful holiday she and her husband had just been on, I felt like screaming at her to shut up and didn’t she know what I was going through! Then later in the day I got a text from my cousin showing them lounging by the pool in Mexico with cocktails in hand, I felt so resentful! Both couples are about our age ( early 70s) It’s not so much the holidays I resent as the fact that they can still enjoy life together! And now I feel guilty for being so jealous.