Yesterday my husband passed away after two years in a care home. He was only 66. I haven’t been able to see him since February.
On the one hand I am so grateful to the care home staff for their love and care of him though this time, on the other I am so angry not just at the dementia which is a vicious and cruel disease, but for the management of covid which has denied me the little time I might have had left with him.
Now, all the normal patterns of bereavement are denied too. Yes we can have twenty people at the funeral but we are spread throughout the country so coming together at this time, and then parting to go back from whence we came increases the vector risk of this disease.
What a time we live in.
Just saying...
On the one hand I am so grateful to the care home staff for their love and care of him though this time, on the other I am so angry not just at the dementia which is a vicious and cruel disease, but for the management of covid which has denied me the little time I might have had left with him.
Now, all the normal patterns of bereavement are denied too. Yes we can have twenty people at the funeral but we are spread throughout the country so coming together at this time, and then parting to go back from whence we came increases the vector risk of this disease.
What a time we live in.
Just saying...