My daughters were hoping that we could all go away together as a family to a holiday cottage fora week later in the year. The last time my Oli and I went away was 2 years ago and we had to cut it short as he reached the point of complete exhaustion.
in order to give things a trial run on Friday we went with our one daughter and son in law for a two night stay in a lovely well appointed holiday flat. Night one was ok. Nothing dramatic. Day two we got on a bus and a hop on hop off bus to see the city. It soon became obvious that my Oli would not cope with any more than sitting on the bus and halfway round not even that. We got off the hop on hop off, got a 2nd bus back to our holiday apartment and we spent the rest of the afternoon there while my daughter, son in law and granddaughter carried on doing the tourist sights.
Come evening the wheels fell off. He hardly slept at all, was continually to and from the bathroom, got lost although I had put lights to show him to and from the bathroom. My Oli, my daughter and I had hardly any sleep at all. We are all absolutely exhausted today. I’m just grateful that I was not the one having to drive home.
Now we are ho e I hope things will settle and we will have a decent nights sleep.
The trial weekend has shown us, without a doubt, that there is no point in attempting a holiday away from home.
I lay in bed last night, tears streaming down my face as I realised that this is going to be my life from now on.
At this stage I can’t even contemplate putting him into respite and going somewhere on my own.
it is what it is.
in order to give things a trial run on Friday we went with our one daughter and son in law for a two night stay in a lovely well appointed holiday flat. Night one was ok. Nothing dramatic. Day two we got on a bus and a hop on hop off bus to see the city. It soon became obvious that my Oli would not cope with any more than sitting on the bus and halfway round not even that. We got off the hop on hop off, got a 2nd bus back to our holiday apartment and we spent the rest of the afternoon there while my daughter, son in law and granddaughter carried on doing the tourist sights.
Come evening the wheels fell off. He hardly slept at all, was continually to and from the bathroom, got lost although I had put lights to show him to and from the bathroom. My Oli, my daughter and I had hardly any sleep at all. We are all absolutely exhausted today. I’m just grateful that I was not the one having to drive home.
Now we are ho e I hope things will settle and we will have a decent nights sleep.
The trial weekend has shown us, without a doubt, that there is no point in attempting a holiday away from home.
I lay in bed last night, tears streaming down my face as I realised that this is going to be my life from now on.
At this stage I can’t even contemplate putting him into respite and going somewhere on my own.
it is what it is.
