Hi. Sorry it’s a long post.
This follows on from a few posts I have done for advice.
I have had concerns for a while, my husband was reluctant to go to the doctors but has now agreed.
I was going to just wait and watch but there have been a few things this past few days that I’m not sure whether to worry or if I’m overthinking things.
A couple of days ago, our washing machine broke (wouldn’t empty) when my husband was using it. Having eventually got the door open somehow, he took the sopping wet clothes out and put them in the sink and the put another load straight in and set it off. Of course they were stuck then in the machine full of water. Keeping in mind my husband has been a mechanical engineer for over 40 years, he had no idea what could be wrong or any attempts to resolve. I knew that it would be the filter blocked (but waited for him to leave for work and then sorted). I had to take 2 plinths off to do this and left them off to sort after work as running late by this time. My husband got home before me and when I got in, he could not work out how to get the two plinths back on. I needed to step in again. This is so not how things would normally be (this would all be his department).
I detail my husbands struggles at work in other posts. Yesterday, he said that he got into a complete muddle with a simple task at work - 3 different pieces of metal had to go into 3 different machines (he got them all the wrong way around and they had to be scrapped). He said that he just had no idea what he was doing with it. He also said that he felt like he’d had a brain freeze for a moment and didn’t know where he was or what he was doing and that it was quite frightening. This is the first time he has said anything like that really.
Last night, he came to me and said the Sky wasn’t working in the bedroom and could I come and help him unplug it and plug if back in again (the plug is hard to get to). Of course I said yes and just said we don’t need to unplug at the wall, just unplug the power lead on the box. All fixed then but a concern that he couldn’t figure that out?
Last point was tonight, I asked him to carve a whole chicken up I’d brought in.
He struggled and made such a mess and said I can’t do it because it’s just all bone - he had done it upside down. I know these are little things but he seems to be struggling more and more with (non complex) tasks.
Sometimes I wonder if I am just concerned about fairly normal changes in some people (he is only 59 though), even reading this back, the examples sound a bit silly? Thank you for reading x
This follows on from a few posts I have done for advice.
I have had concerns for a while, my husband was reluctant to go to the doctors but has now agreed.
I was going to just wait and watch but there have been a few things this past few days that I’m not sure whether to worry or if I’m overthinking things.
A couple of days ago, our washing machine broke (wouldn’t empty) when my husband was using it. Having eventually got the door open somehow, he took the sopping wet clothes out and put them in the sink and the put another load straight in and set it off. Of course they were stuck then in the machine full of water. Keeping in mind my husband has been a mechanical engineer for over 40 years, he had no idea what could be wrong or any attempts to resolve. I knew that it would be the filter blocked (but waited for him to leave for work and then sorted). I had to take 2 plinths off to do this and left them off to sort after work as running late by this time. My husband got home before me and when I got in, he could not work out how to get the two plinths back on. I needed to step in again. This is so not how things would normally be (this would all be his department).
I detail my husbands struggles at work in other posts. Yesterday, he said that he got into a complete muddle with a simple task at work - 3 different pieces of metal had to go into 3 different machines (he got them all the wrong way around and they had to be scrapped). He said that he just had no idea what he was doing with it. He also said that he felt like he’d had a brain freeze for a moment and didn’t know where he was or what he was doing and that it was quite frightening. This is the first time he has said anything like that really.
Last night, he came to me and said the Sky wasn’t working in the bedroom and could I come and help him unplug it and plug if back in again (the plug is hard to get to). Of course I said yes and just said we don’t need to unplug at the wall, just unplug the power lead on the box. All fixed then but a concern that he couldn’t figure that out?
Last point was tonight, I asked him to carve a whole chicken up I’d brought in.
He struggled and made such a mess and said I can’t do it because it’s just all bone - he had done it upside down. I know these are little things but he seems to be struggling more and more with (non complex) tasks.
Sometimes I wonder if I am just concerned about fairly normal changes in some people (he is only 59 though), even reading this back, the examples sound a bit silly? Thank you for reading x