I live with Dad and do all his meals and sort out his tv and everything else to do with home and garden and appointments etc, but we hardly ever "talk"
Dad is deaf, can't follow anything I say, mishears, goes off on a tangent or says he doesn't want to know, why does he need to know that, nothing to do with him etc etc. Besides the usual , "Here is your dinner/tea/clothes etc etc and sorting out his daily problems we never "chat" and I find myself escaping all to often to another room, or out somewhere.
I wondered how people with loved ones , manage to pencil in "chat time" on top of the "getting by" caring jobs?
Dad seems to have lost touch completely with the outside world and if I tell him I'm going out shopping, the last couple of times I get back and tell him I'm back, he says "I didn't know you'd gone out".
Dad is deaf, can't follow anything I say, mishears, goes off on a tangent or says he doesn't want to know, why does he need to know that, nothing to do with him etc etc. Besides the usual , "Here is your dinner/tea/clothes etc etc and sorting out his daily problems we never "chat" and I find myself escaping all to often to another room, or out somewhere.
I wondered how people with loved ones , manage to pencil in "chat time" on top of the "getting by" caring jobs?
Dad seems to have lost touch completely with the outside world and if I tell him I'm going out shopping, the last couple of times I get back and tell him I'm back, he says "I didn't know you'd gone out".