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I am setting limits on the amount of "caring" that we are prepared to do. It doesn't mean that I don't care but I am not prepared to let this illness destroy my relationship with my husband or family life.
Think the above quote was 'mumof3'
I want to borrow this. I am having difficulities with Lionel and his mobility. Main carer, 7 days a week, is on holiday and the agency have let me down, badly.
No cover at all. I really cannot manage Lionel on my own, and after last nights fall, and subsequent help from kindly neighbour, he was completely immobile this morning.
In despair I telephoned his respite home, and "miracle" they can take him a week early. Having been unhappy all day, when I told him this tonight, his reply was that when he went he never wanted to come back. Then the ranting started, and it went on and on.and on
I do not know how much more of this I can take. His "hatred" of me is so upsetting. I want to run away. I know it is the illness, but there are two of us in this situation, and today I feel 'enough is enough'
Eldest grandson is coming with me tomorrow to take him to the care home. Lionel will go willingly. I shall have to collect him on Tuesday, to take him to hospital for a CT scan. Fed up tonight, sorry for the rant,
I am setting limits on the amount of "caring" that we are prepared to do. It doesn't mean that I don't care but I am not prepared to let this illness destroy my relationship with my husband or family life.
Think the above quote was 'mumof3'
I want to borrow this. I am having difficulities with Lionel and his mobility. Main carer, 7 days a week, is on holiday and the agency have let me down, badly.
No cover at all. I really cannot manage Lionel on my own, and after last nights fall, and subsequent help from kindly neighbour, he was completely immobile this morning.
In despair I telephoned his respite home, and "miracle" they can take him a week early. Having been unhappy all day, when I told him this tonight, his reply was that when he went he never wanted to come back. Then the ranting started, and it went on and on.and on
I do not know how much more of this I can take. His "hatred" of me is so upsetting. I want to run away. I know it is the illness, but there are two of us in this situation, and today I feel 'enough is enough'
Eldest grandson is coming with me tomorrow to take him to the care home. Lionel will go willingly. I shall have to collect him on Tuesday, to take him to hospital for a CT scan. Fed up tonight, sorry for the rant,